Tag: Hayedeh Safiyari
Parallel Tales (Histoires parallèles) | 2026 Cannes Film Festival Review
The Double Life of the Voyeurist: Farhadi Fails with Out of Touch Drama
Initially, it would seem Asghar Farhadi’s decision to present a contemporary world...
In the Land of Brothers | 2024 Sundance Film Festival Review
Family of Straw: Amirfazli & Ghasemi Present a Trilogy of Familial Tragedies
The title, of course, is a bitter irony relating to Iran’s self-anointed nickname,...
Holy Spider | Review
Thrill Crazy. Kill Crazy. God Crazy: Abbasi Tackles Brutal Reality of Women and Islamofascism
“Every man shall meet what he wishes to avoid,” is the...
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...
A Hero | 2021 Cannes Film Festival Review
Purse First: Farhadi Brings Agony and Ecstasy in Latest Social Drama
Robert Burns’ eternal passage, cribbed by Steinbeck, “the best laid schemes o’ mice and...
