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Farhadi Not Forgotten; Cinema Guild Dig into The Past for “About Elly”

Rarely do we report on films being picked up a good half decade after the fact, but Cinema Guild's Ryan Krivoshey saw value in...

Recap: Our Cannes Critics’ Panel think Latest Kechiche, Coens and Farhadi Were a Cut Above

Around the midway point of the fest, all indications told us that Asghar Farhadi's The Past and the Coen bros. Inside Llewyn Davis would...

Review: A Separation

"Iranian writer-director Asghar Farhadi’s deeply involving A Separation manages to absorb the audience in a tangled domestic whodunit sparked by the break-up of a 14-year marriage, while also engaging them in a conscious dialogue about the thorny moral choices the characters are forced to make. Perfect consonance between the art and camera departments allows Farhadi and cinematographer Mahmood Kalari to shoot family members through windows, doorways, and marbled glass dividers, spatially emphasizing their internal disconnect. Lack of a musical score highlights Farhadi’s resistance to passing any kind of verdict on the characters, who are all angled against each other for their own, often concealed, motives."

Brother’s Keeper | Review

School Ties: Karahan Paints a Chilly Scene of Winter in Boarding School Melodrama The numbing apathy of poverty chained to tireless bureaucracy is met with...

Leila’s Brothers | 2022 Cannes Film Festival Review

How to Beat the High Cost of Living: Roustayi Ponders Poverty in Familial Melodrama “Anyone who has struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it...

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