Asghar Farhadi’s The Salesman would never be categorized as a horror film. But with its reservoirs of escalating tension, sustained unease, and figurative and literal aftershocks, it might as well be. To wit: An old apartment building groans under the weight of itself, its cracks slowly spiderwebbing across its windows and walls, as its tenants flee. One of those tenants, … [Read more...]
‘Fireworks Wednesday’: Scenes from a marriage, subversively explored
Hediyeh Tehrani in Fireworks Wednesday. An interesting thing has happened to the career of Iran’s Asghar Farhadi: It is moving forward by moving backward, at least for Western audiences. Ever since his 2011 drama A Separation scored Oscar and Golden Globe gold, his previous features have been unearthed from dust heap of film history, feeding an international art-house … [Read more...]