Another beautiful film from iranian cinema – Diário de Notícias – Lisbon

THE SELLER Asghar Farhadi

Is it really true that there is a fascinating realistic route in the interior of the iranian cinema. We can set it from the works of two great filmmakers as Abbas Kiarostami and Jafar Panahi, but also through iconic films of Asghar Farhadi: A Separation (2011), The Past (2013) and, now, Salesperson, awarded in Cannes with the prize for best male actor (Shahab Hosseini) and argument (of the own Farhadi).

as in previous titles, it is to observe the crisis of a couple, in this case the actors to work in Tehran, in a staging of the play Death of a Salesman, by Arthur Miller. The suggestion of a game of mirrors between the lived life and the life represented is immediate, generating a web of events in which the elements of the more obscure ones may also be, paradoxically, the most revealing. Always with a delicate attention to the social role and symbolic of the women, Farhadi is a filmmaker of a psychology without psicologismos, particularly in the cultural elements together, universal in its capacity of involvement.

Rating: **** very good