Plot
An Iranian man deserts his French wife and two children to return to his homeland. Meanwhile, his wife starts up a new relationship, a reality her husband confronts upon his wife's request for a divorce.
Release Year: 2013
Rating: 8.1/10 (11,555 voted)
Director:Asghar Farhadi
Storyline
Coming back to accomplish the divorce procedure, Ahmad an Iranian man, arrives in Paris after four years to meet his ex-wife and her daughters from her previous marriage. He notices his ex is in a relationship with an Arab named Samir who also has a son and a wife in a coma. The relationship of the older daughter and her mother is in deterioration because the daughter thinks her mother is the cause of Samir's wife comatose state. The affairs get more complicated when the older daughter discloses something heinous she has done.
Trivia: Ali Mosaffa learned french two months before filming began. See more »
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This film was highly expected among the cinephiles and film critics who
had watched the Oscar-winning film "A Separation". this is the first
time the Iranian director Asghar Farhadi makes a movie which is not
only not in his native language (Persian), but he can't even speak a
word of it! he seems to have done a great job. the main theme ,like his
previous movies, is family relations and here we can see a detailed
observation of the effects of the past in our life. we can't get rid of
our pasts, but only carry it along...
The actors and actresses are in the right places. Ali Mosaffa
powerfully portrays an Iranian man who comes to France in order to
officialize his divorce with Marie(Bérénice Bejo), which is now living
with his new boyfriend (Tahar Rahim). both Bejo and Rahim deliver
promising performances and the young Belgian actress Pauline Burlet
shows that her lack of experience can't prevent her from shining among
the other stars of the film.the actors in supporting roles like the two
kids(Elyes Aguis and Jeanne Jestin) are properly chosen and remind us
of our childhood when we don't carry any packages from the past.
Many people from different countries worked in this movie together to
show us as a result that the human sentiments is the universal language
and we don't necessarily need our mother tongues to communicate.
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