Asghar Farhadi – ALLIANCE OF WOMEN FILM JOURNALISTS

A HERO – Review by Susan Granger

January 18, 2022January 22, 2022 Susan Granger Alireza Jahandideh, Amir Jadidi, Asghar Farhadi, iranian films, Mohsen Tanabandeh

Set in the Iranian city of Shiraz, the film follows sign painter/calligrapher Rahim (Amir Jadidi), a divorced father imprisoned for debt, who is given a ‘furlough’ of 48 hours to convince his dour creditor, Bahram (Mohsen Tanabandeh) who runs a copying/printing store in a shopping mall, to drop the charges. The complex narrative explores universal themes of honesty, honor and the price of freedom by showing how half-truths and lies can erode the soul and exposing how insidious judgment by social media is increasingly prevalent.

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A HERO – Review by Diane Carson

December 31, 2021January 1, 2022 Diane Carson a hero, Asghar Farhadi, iranian films, oscar short list, shiraz

Iranian director Asghar Farhadi takes small incidents, elaborates their details, and thereby reveals the destructive fault lines of personal and political situations. As in his brilliant A Separation, winner of the 2012 Oscar for Best Foreign Film, his A Hero takes on an illuminating tour of the tangled complexity of Iranian justice and social media, family and business.

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EVERYBODY KNOWS – Review by Martha K. Baker

March 11, 2019March 10, 2019 Martha K. Baker 0 Comments Asghar Farhadi, everybody knows, javier bardem, penelope cruz

The Iranian writer/director Asghar Farhadi is well known and well honored for his works, including the luminous Separation and The Salesman. With Everybody Knows, he continues observing families, but the film trembles on the cusp of telenovela as often as it explores secrets.