Tag: Taraneh Alidoosti

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...

The Salesman | Blu-ray Review

Iranian auteur Asghar Farhadi’s The Salesman was his second film to win the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language film (following 2012’s A Separation),...

The Salesman | Review

Dark but Full of Diamonds: Farhadi Incorporates Miller’s Tragic Theater for Gendered Revenge In keeping with his string of tersely titled but searing domestic melodramas,...

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La petite dernière (The Little Sister) | Review

The Lost Daughter: Herzi Passes Up Potency in Standard...

Interview: Marjane Satrapi & Vincent Paronnaud – Persepolis

The thrill of meeting Marjane Satrapi reminded me of being 6 years old at Disney Land when I met the living, breathing Cinderella. Except Cinderella was an actress with a blond wig and Marjane is the real woman behind her autobiographical graphic novel, turned movie, “Persepolis”. The distinctive mole on her nose and her dark sultry eyes rose off the page and appeared in front of me, smoking and speaking with a French accent.