Iranian director Asghar Farhadi follows his masterful A Separation (2011) with another elaborate moral puzzle, though as his first film to be shot in France, this is notably devoid of the Islamic fundamentalism that figured so heavily in the earlier drama. Patient, empathetic Samir (Tahar Rahim) travels from Tehran to Paris to finalize his divorce from short-tempered Marie (Berenice Bejo); after lodging in her home, he gets pulled into an anguished drama involving her and her new fiance, Ahmad (Ali Mosaffa), as well as the man’s resentful young son and Marie’s angry teenage daughter. This fragile new family is haunted by a tragedy that occurred some years earlier, and in scenes of arresting immediacy, they blame one another and grapple with their own guilt. In French and Persian.
Out of The Past
Asghar Farhadi, director of the Oscar-winning A Separation, returns with another morality play.
