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The Salesman

Forushande (The Salesman)

2016

Asghar Farhadi

Shahab Hosseini, Taraneh Alidoosti, Babak Karimi, Mina Sadati ...

7.1

8,495

Drama When a couple (Shahab Hosseini and Taraneh Alidoosti) must vacate their collapsing upscale apartment building, a friend offers them a new space to live but doesn't relay that it was formerly inhabited by a woman of ill repute. An incident linked to the previous tenant will dramatically change the young couple’s life.

	Author	Review
United States	Owen Gleiberman Variety	"Another finely cut gem of neorealist suspense (...) “The Salesman” is even more low-key, minimal, and contained than the earlier Farhadi films"	POS
United States	Deborah Young The Hollywood Reporter	"Lacking the astounding social complexity of (...) 'A Separation', here the gears are not so hidden and a sense of contrived drama leads to some tedious sections. But all is forgiven when the final punches are delivered"	NEU
United States	Ben Croll The Wrap	"The new Farhadi Is good, not great (...) 'The Salesman' sees the director returning to number of themes and ideas he has explored in his previous films"	POS
United States	Dana Stevens Slate	"The two storylines interweave seamlessly and subtly, the couple's real-life problems not so much repeating as refracting the experiences of their fictional counterparts."	POS
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"'The Salesman' is a dazzling, darkly funny, quietly devastating human drama from Iran. You are in the hands of a major film artist. (...) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Anthony Lane The New Yorker	"With every shot, our sympathies flicker and tilt."	POS
United States	A. O. Scott The New York Times	"With exquisite patience and attention to detail, Asghar Farhadi, the writer and director, builds a solid and suspenseful plot out of ordinary incidents, and packs it with rich and resonant ideas."	POS
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"The sheer IQ of Farhadi’s film-making makes this very watchable (...) The Salesman is a well-crafted, valuable drama (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of five)"	POS

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