Narrative brilliance from Farhadi once again with his engrossing moral dramas where awful things happen but it is never one person’s fault
Starts with a strong montage opening of the stage set
Shahab Hosseini is back from A Separation – and he plays Emad. Emad is staging Arthur Miller’s The Death of a Salesman– a strong subtext for Farhadi’s narrative
Beautiful opening two-minute handheld (Farhadi’s use of handheld is important to his style- authenticity- realism) tracking shot both technically brilliant and the metaphor for the building crumbling is spot on and perfect Farhadi
post-traumatic stress, Hosseini’s character is consumed with this incident as his relationship with Rana (Taraneh Alidoosti) unravels
This is certainly auteur cinema- it makes A Separation stronger and A Separation makes this stronger. It is about the cross-section of lives around one incident – subjectivity – splendid acting
writing and acting award wins at Cannes-Hosseini and Farhadi
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