The Salesman (2016)

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Film Review: "The Salesman" (2016)Running in competition alongside "I, Daniel Blake" directed by Ken Loach and "The Handmaiden" directed by Park-Chon-Wook, the latest film by director Asghar Farhadi is slow-burn character-driven drama with suspense elements that crawl under the spectator's skin in scenes of a restraint mainly handheld camera by fellow collaborator Hossein Jafarian, who together with director Farhadi recreate a constant-moving world for a young couple Rana & Emad, portrayed by match-making actors Taraneh Alidoosti and Shahab Hosseini, feeling into an utmost inconvenient scenario for the main character to endure coming from a collapsing apartment building into the used flat of a former prostitute, only to get trapped into a gripping emotional journey of leading man Emad finding the abuser of his wife alongside a self-therapeutic stage realization of Arthur Hiller's classic "Death of a Salesman", which feels put into place of a stretched editorial of 120 Minutes, when director Asghar Farhadi must admit that he avoids full commitment to his self-refelcted spine at hand with an avenging murder over money, emotional dominion and sexual abuse.Nevertheless even though the director's recent films seem difficult to enter at first glance, as critically most-acclaimed "A Separation" (2011), for a common audience, who needs to sit through in order to receive an emotional as controversial reward of one of the most internationally promising director on his road to another Cannes motion picture installment, expected to be in competition at the Festival's 71st edition from May 8th to May1 19th 2018 with a promising drama starring Penélope Cruz & Javier Bardem on a from Latein-America-returning Spanish woman with husband and children to an suburban home town near Madrid, unraveling further secrets of the characters' strangled subconscious.FAZIT: Picture approved (accessible) © 2018 Felix Alexander Dausend (Cinemajesty Entertainments LLC)

I applaud director Farhadi for making Iran more accessible to outsiders, focusing on modern urban issues, and making Tehran more internationally relatable. But I'm not a fan of his pacing or how he plays out the drama. I had low expectations as "A Separation" lost me due to the unrelenting yelling between its characters. "The Salesman" was more lively and allowed its characters to have more emotions. But two things ultimately distracted me: the first was the uneven pacing. The movie would pick up but then drag, and the worst part being the final act; just as the dialogue, drama, and suspense were at its best, and Farhadi has you feeling empathy for everyone, he does not know when to quit, and gives us almost 20 minutes of people crying.The second one was: I realized that he was just making an Argentine film. If you've seen Argentine cinema, that you'll notice that, aside from the occasional dark comedy, they're mostly slow-paced melodrama about relationships between family members and the communities, where people go from being numb to an ultimate eruption of emotions. Even their thrillers play out this way. Shahab Hosseini looked and acted like Ricardo Darin, down to the body language and linguistic pacing. Thus, I felt like I had seen this movie a dozen times before.It is no surprise to me that Farhadi's next film is set in Argentina and involves Darin.

As with other Asghar Farhadi movies, this movies is an authentic window into real life. You can empathize with every character. Every line of dialog is realistic. The acting is superb. The twists of the story are not forced, rather fit organically with the story and how the characters think and receive information. The subject matter makes it hard not to vilify the antagonist but Farhadi manages to do so by shedding light on their layered character and motives. Just as in real life, the people who do evil are not pure evil themselves.The realistic portrayal of the movie also makes watching the movie a self-exploration journey. You can't help but put yourself into the shoes of the characters and think what you would have done differently.

I'm someone who really liked, "A Separation," so I was looking forward to this film which has of course received high critical acclaim. The first half of this movie was compelling...what happened to the wife, and will they find the person who attacked her? But then when the "explanation" is given, it doesn't really make any sense, and the question really isn't answered. Why do I say that? Because the guy accused of attacking the wife doesn't seem like he'd be able to do it. So what is the explanation for that? There is no explanation. Oh well.So then I decide to watch the extra on the DVD, where the director explains what he was trying to accomplish. This will surely help me understand this picture better! But it didn't. Apparently, to really "get" this film, you have to be well-versed in the play "Death of a Salesman," (which I read in high school, by the way), which is also being performed by an acting troupe in this movie. Seriously! So I guess I just wasn't smart enough to appreciate this film. I guess all the critics who loved it and the Academy who gave it the Best Foreign Film Oscar are much smarter and hipper than me.