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L'Avventura (1960)
Directed by Michelangelo Antonioni
influenced About Elly (2009), A Separation (2011)
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Film-history buffs immediately spotted the influence of Michelangelo Antonioni’s 1960 classic “L’Avventura” in this cunning ensemble drama about a group of friends on a seaside vacation torn apart by a woman’s unexplained disappearance, but no degree in cinema studies was required to appreciate Farhadi’s confident control of characters, image and story, or his complex and humane portrait of life inside the Islamic Republic.
It's easy to see Farhadi's story influences in "About Elly," notably Antonioni's "L'Avventura," where a strange disappearance transforms the people left in the picture.
That this vanishing sets up a mystery that propels the rest of the film has led to understandable critical comparisons to Antonioni’s “L’Avventura.”
As search boats and divers are called in and the police wait for Elly's body to be washed up on shore, it's hard not to flash on the drama of the missing woman in Antonioni's "L'Avventura."
A woman goes missing by the sea: the stuff of “L’Avventura,” Michelangelo Antonioni’s 1960 masterpiece, but also of contemporary Iranian master Asghar Farhadi’s 2009 “About Elly,” only now getting a U. S. release after clearing rights issues.
It starts out with the joie de vivre of an Eric Rohmer beach movie, darkens into the moral complications and complexities of Jean Renoir’s “The Rules of the Game” (1939), and ends with the irresolution and existential dismay of Michelangelo Antonioni’s “L’avventura” (1960).
There is a turn that’s similar to Denis Villeneuve’s Prisoners, where Emad tracks down her attacker and locks him in an abandoned building, but The Salesman is not interested in torture or thrills.
Enraged by his wife’s suffering but unable to inhabit her perspective, Emad takes a page from Hugh Jackman’s script in Prisoners , tracking specific culprits while liberally distributing blame.
(His performance is reminiscent of Hugh Jackman in "Prisoners.")
Ethically complicated and structurally reminiscent of the Safdie brothers’ “Uncut Gems” (2019), “A Hero” delivers a nuanced examination of justice—and the many shades of injustice that surround it.
Licorice Pizza (2021)
Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson
influenced by The Salesman (2016), A Separation (2011)
Asghar Farhadi, 49, wrote and directed 2011’s A Separation, Iran’s first winner of the foreign film Oscar, then the 2016 Oscar winner, The Salesman.
Asghar Farhadi, 49, wrote and directed 2011’s A Separation, Iran’s first winner of the foreign film Oscar, then the 2016 Oscar winner, The Salesman.
His Marriage Story, a masterpiece loosely based on his own divorce six years ago from actress Jennifer Jason Leigh, is the best divorce movie since A Separation, if not Kramer vs. Kramer (which it echoes).
But the sleight of hand is typical of the director, Asghar Farhadi, who has—in films like “About Elly” (2009), “A Separation” (2011), and “The Past” (2013)—shown himself to be a master of disorientation.
But others (think "Life is Beautiful," "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" or "A Separation") are so universally powerful that they transcend spoken language, and become vital pieces of cinema that need to be seen by the masses.
Paterson awakes, kisses his slumbering wife Laura (About Elly’s wonderful Golshifteh Farahani, showing again Jarmusch’s knack for counterintuitive international casting) goodbye, and walks to work at the bus depot in the New Jersey town that bears his name.
Laura, played by the formidable Golshifteh Farahani (About Elly; There Be Dragons ), is a creative soul as spontaneous and flighty as Paterson is steady and reliable.
Farahani, an Iranian actress who shone in Asghar Farhadi’s 2009 drama About Elly, is a perfectly effervescent balance to Driver’s more muted work.
Laura, played by Iranian actress Golshifteh Farahani (who’s in Kiarostami’s “Shirin” and Farhadi’s “ About Elly ”) is more or less a housewife.
At the end of each day, he comes home to a bulldog called Marvin, and to his significant other Laura (Golshifteh Farahani, from Chicken with Plums and About Elly ); the movie never says whether they're married or just living together, and it's not important.
Portrayed with obvious relish by the radiant Farahani (About Elly, Les Deux Amis), Laura is an eccentric, if not entirely deranged, woman-child who is obsessed by black-and-white patterns.