The Salesman (2016)
(Forushande)
Country: IR/FR
Technical: col 125m
Director: Asghar Farhadi
Cast: Taraneh Alidoosti, Shahab Hosseini, Babak Karimi
Synopsis:
A schoolteacher and his wife taking part in an amateur production of Death of a Salesman have to move flats when their own becomes unsafe. Their new dwelling harbours complications of its own, however, and the husband reacts unpredictably when an acquaintance of the previous tenant makes an intrusion.
Review:
As with Fireworks Wednesday, Farhadi takes a small, almost trivial incident and examines the social and moral ramifications and their effects on a couple. Here the husband's almost neurotic vindictiveness would appear to stem from the fact that another man has seen his wife naked and may have touched her sexually, the importance of which is naturally exacerbated by cultural factors. Farhadi cleverly contrives a number of parallels with the play within the film, but none that is too obvious. With this seventh feature he is fast proving himself the new Ingmar Bergman.
(Forushande)
Country: IR/FR
Technical: col 125m
Director: Asghar Farhadi
Cast: Taraneh Alidoosti, Shahab Hosseini, Babak Karimi
Synopsis:
A schoolteacher and his wife taking part in an amateur production of Death of a Salesman have to move flats when their own becomes unsafe. Their new dwelling harbours complications of its own, however, and the husband reacts unpredictably when an acquaintance of the previous tenant makes an intrusion.
Review:
As with Fireworks Wednesday, Farhadi takes a small, almost trivial incident and examines the social and moral ramifications and their effects on a couple. Here the husband's almost neurotic vindictiveness would appear to stem from the fact that another man has seen his wife naked and may have touched her sexually, the importance of which is naturally exacerbated by cultural factors. Farhadi cleverly contrives a number of parallels with the play within the film, but none that is too obvious. With this seventh feature he is fast proving himself the new Ingmar Bergman.
(Forushande)
Country: IR/FR
Technical: col 125m
Director: Asghar Farhadi
Cast: Taraneh Alidoosti, Shahab Hosseini, Babak Karimi
Synopsis:
A schoolteacher and his wife taking part in an amateur production of Death of a Salesman have to move flats when their own becomes unsafe. Their new dwelling harbours complications of its own, however, and the husband reacts unpredictably when an acquaintance of the previous tenant makes an intrusion.
Review:
As with Fireworks Wednesday, Farhadi takes a small, almost trivial incident and examines the social and moral ramifications and their effects on a couple. Here the husband's almost neurotic vindictiveness would appear to stem from the fact that another man has seen his wife naked and may have touched her sexually, the importance of which is naturally exacerbated by cultural factors. Farhadi cleverly contrives a number of parallels with the play within the film, but none that is too obvious. With this seventh feature he is fast proving himself the new Ingmar Bergman.