Search results for: Asghar Farhadi

And then they were twenty-one. Shown to Cannes' head honcho Thierry Fremaux a tad too late for the initial announcement, Asghar Farhadi's The Saleman...

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...

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...

"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."

Phantom Limb: Panahi Treads Ripples of Retribution Jafar Panahi continues to poke the bear with It Was Just an Accident, his latest being another film...