Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 5 cats
Director: Asghar Farhadi
Starring: Amir Jadidi | Fereshteh Sadre Orafaiy | Mohsen Tanabandeh | Sahar Goldoust
Michael says: “Asghar Farhadi is the master of the ethical quandary. His complex stories put people in situations where they just can’t win, whether they are trying to do good, or acting in their own self-interest. And that’s the real
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Asghar Farhadi
Starring: Hamid Farokhnezhad | Hediyeh Tehrani | Houman Seyyedi | Pantea Bahram | Sahar Dolatshahi | Taraneh Alidoosti
Michael says: “The first film by Farhadi that I saw was the riveting A SEPARATION, released in US in 2012, which I didn’t realize was his first film until quite a bit later. His follow-up film, the nearly as riveting
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Director: Asghar Farhadi
Starring: Babak Karimi | Mehdi Koushki | Mina Sadati | Shahab Hosseini | Taraneh Alidoosti
By Chris Kriofske
Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Asghar Farhadi
Starring: Bárbara Lennie | Eduard Fernández | Inma Cuestra | Javier Bardem | Penélope Cruz | Ricardo Darín
Chris says: “Asghar Fahardi’s latest is his least essential feature to date, but only when you consider his exceptional track record. If you’ve already seen A SEPARATION, THE PAST and all the rest, you could do much worse than this
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Rating: 4.9
Director: Asghar Farhadi
Starring: Ali Mosaffa | Bérénice Bejo | Elyes Aguis | Jeanne Jestin | Pauline Burlet | Sabrina Ouazani | Tahar Rahim
Michael says: “It may be a little too early to start saying that Iranian director Asghar Farhadi is one of my favorite filmmakers, but he’s batting two for two with A SEPARATION and now the emotionally wrenching THE PAST, actually
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Rating: 4.6
Director: Asghar Farhadi
Starring: Ali-Asghar Shahbazi | Babak Karimi | Kimia Hosseini | Leila Hatami | Merila Zare'i | Payman Maadi | Sareh Bayat | Sarina Farhadi | Shahab Hosseini | Shirin Yazdanbakhsh | Sohibanoo Zolqadr
Ibad says: “I’m fully aware that when someone like myself has been really hyping up a certain picture for a while…and they finally see it…and it turns out, surprise!, they’re in love with it, it almost seems forced if not
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Asghar Farhadi
Starring: Ahmad Mehranfar | Golshifteh Farahani | Mani Haghighi | Marila Zare’I | Peyman Moaadi | Rana Azadvar | Saber Abbar | Shahab Hosseini | Taraneh Alidoosti
Bruce says: “ABOUT ELLY is gathering laurels on more the one continent. Director Asghar Farhadi won directorial award at the Berlin Film Festival earlier in 2009 and the film recently won the Best Picture award at the Tribeca Film Festival.
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