A painstaking script that won a prize in Cannes, excellent performances, and plenty to think about: what more could you want? Well, a spoiled-rotten cinema visitor will note that Asghar Farhadi's About Elly and A Separation were even better and more surprising.
Taraneh Alidoosti (what unadulterated star-power) and Shahab Hosseini (who won an award at Cannes) play a couple of theatre actors that unexpectedly breaks up during a run of Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman.
After being assaulted in their new apartment in Teheran, Rana is completely distraught. Emad is primarily concerned with finding the perpetrator. Opinion is deeply divided about what should happen to him afterwards. The scarier thing is that these differences of opinion are motivated by profoundly different ideas of humanity.
Farhadi insists on staying in control of everything. The advantage of that is an exemplary dramatic arc, the disadvantage is a lack of room for manoeuvre for the viewer.
IR, 2016, dir: Asghar Farhadi, act: Shahab Hosseini, Taraneh Alidoosti, 123 min
Galeries, Le Stockel, Vendôme
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