A Hero Is A Gripping Study Of Altruism In The Age Of Social Media
In the age of viral content, the film asks, what separates an action motivated by personal honour from one prompted by having to live up to one’s curated public image?
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Every Film Playing At The 2021 Cannes Film Festival
New features by Wes Anderson, Paul Verhoeven, Sean Baker, Leos Carax, Asghar Farhadi and more
Caught At Cannes: Asghar Farhadi, Cate Blanchett, And A Kimono
Thoughts on the Cannes main jury press conference and the new film from Asghar Farhadi starring Javier Bardem and Penélope Cruz
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Value Your Own Unconscious: Asghar Farhadi On Writing And More
Earlier this month, Iranian writer-director Asghar Farhadi’s seventh directorial feature, The Salesman, made a brief but significant appearance at Indian multiplexes. The release of the Oscar-winning film was an important…
The Salesman Movie Review
The Salesman is a quietly devastating film about a couple in crisis. Emad and Rana are affectionate, ordinary, middle-class. They are childless but there is talk about having a baby…
