the salesman

The adjective that often comes up when discussing the movies of Asghar Farhadi is human. Between his subtle direction, the masterful turns he mines from his frequent acting collaborators and the three-dimensional characters he writes –…

Asghar Farhadi makes great, great movies. Perhaps most obviously, they are eye-opening glimpses into a different culture. A front-runner in the Iranian New-Wave – a cinematic movement which has given us works like Abbas Kiarostami’s Ten,…