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...“Many of the directors there, like Jafar Panahi and Asghar Farhadi, are very brave, making work that dances on the bridge of being political. The films are amazing.”...
...“To you, deputy minister, roads might be these awful stretches of concrete,” Asghar said. “But to us, businesses, commuters and residents, they are a necessity.”...
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...However, Natasha Asghar, the Conservative shadow transport minister in the Welsh assembly, dismissed the Labour government’s road policies, which include a default 20mph speed limit in urban areas, as “ludicrous...
...After a ragged result shooting a Spanish-language feature far from home, Everybody Knows, Iranian auteur Asghar Farhadi (A Separation, The Salesman) comes home to make yet another subtle, layered dissection...
...It was an invigorating start to week two, which promised the return of previous Cannes heavyweights Asghar Farhadi with A Hero, Jacques Audiard with Paris, 13th District, and Apichatpong Weerasethakul with...
...daughter until they bury your mother. until you’re not invited to your father’s funeral. you’re a virgin until you get too drunk. you’re muslim until you’re not a virgin. you’re pakistani until they start...
...Asghar, 65, sells aquariums and tropical fish in Imam Khomeini Street. Near his shop, the banks set alight in November’s protests are visible....
...A kidnapping plot can turn human beings into helpless animals. Everybody runs about like decapitated chickens at climactic moments in Asghar Farhadi’s Everybody Knows. Everybody knows what?...
...With the fitfully gripping mystery Everybody Knows Iranian auteur Asghar Farhadi relocates to Spain with Penélope Cruz and Javier Bardem and gets a little drunk on clichés....
...Another essential element is the figure of the crusading legal expert, here Rabia Chaudry, a formidable family friend of the Syeds....
...This year promised to be different: the latest offering in the main Competition from beloved Iranian auteur Asghar Farhadi, director of a string of critical hits and Cannes prize winners — The Past, The...
...Film is also one of the media in which Iran is universally recognised; we mention Abbas Kiarostami, of course, but we could have talked about Samira Makhmalbaf or Asghar Farhadi; Iranian film seems to travel...
...The titular “ordinary Muslim” of Hammaad Chaudry’s new play is Azeem Bhatti, a thirtysomething Londoner and son of Pakistani immigrants....
...“Some protesters were disturbing citizens like forcing them get out of taxis and buses…or setting fire to one taxi,” said Ali-Asghar Naser-Bakht, deputy to Tehran’s governor....
...The Salesman won Iranian director Asghar Farhadi his second Best Foreign-Language Film Oscar....
...Directed by Asghar Farhadi, 2016 Curzon Artificial Eye Asghar Farhadi’s Oscar-winning film starts with a building on the verge of collapse — a less-than-subtle metaphor for the ensuing breakdown of the...
...“Some protesters were disturbing citizens, forcing them [to] get out of taxis and buses . . . or setting fire to taxis,” said Ali-Asghar Naser-Bakht, Tehran’s deputy governor....
...The movie itself is a cousin to The Salesman and A Separation, Asghar Farhadi’s two Oscar-winning examinations of Iranian society through the lens of Iranian domestic life....
...Asghar Farhadi, director of The Salesman, the Iranian film that won best foreign film, boycotted the ceremony....
...In a tightly wound 84 minutes, first-time writer-director Babak Anvari somehow also finds room for domestic discord worthy of Asghar Farhadi (almost) and a secular feminist subtext: Shideh’s claustrophobia...
...: Barry Jenkins and Tarell Alvin McCraney, Moonlight Foreign language film: Asghar Farhadi (Iran), The Salesman Documentary feature: Ezra Edelman and Caroline Waterlow, O.J.: Made in America Animated...
...In a briefing for reporters, interior ministry official Ali Asghar Ahmadi outlined a similar proportion of votes, which if confirmed would give the pragmatist cleric a second term in which to pursue Iran's...
...Asghar Farhadi’s travel ban boycott; or a salute to Viola Davis’s bravura use of the figure of apostrophe . . ....
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