The Salesman (2016)
Directed by Asghar Farhadi
Forced out of their apartment due to dangerous works on a neighboring building, Emad and Rana move into a new flat in the center of Tehran. An incident linked to the previous tenant will dramatically change the young couple’s life.
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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.")
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.