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The Past

Le passé (The Past)

2013

Asghar Farhadi

Bérénice Bejo, Tahar Rahim, Babak Karimi, Ali Mosaffa ...

6.9

5,527

Drama The story concerns an Iranian man (Ali Mosaffa) who goes back to his home country after wanting a divorce from his wife in France, but when he returns, he finds that his significant other has moved on.

	Author	Review
United States	Justin Chang Variety	"This is an exquisitely sculpted family melodrama in which the end of a marriage is merely the beginning of something else, an indelible tapestry of carefully engineered revelations and deeper human truths"	POS
United States	Deborah Young The Hollywood Reporter	"'The Past' plays like a low-key adagio in the hands of a masterful pianist, who knows how to give every note its just nuance and how every single phrase affects all the rest"	POS
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"What a grippingly made picture it is, with real intellectual sinew (...) Rating. ★★★★ (out of five)"	POS
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"The plot is the impurest of soap opera, but [director Asghar] Farhadi's artistry and resonant humanism transcend melodrama and cultural barriers. (...) Rating: ★★★½ (out of four)"	POS
United States	Manohla Dargis The New York Times	"The narrative complications can be distracting, at times exasperating, but they're finally irrelevant because Mr. Farhadi's filmmaking is so fluid, and the performers, Ms. Bejo, in particular, are so attractive."	POS
United States	Claudia Puig USA Today	"Almost hypnotically compelling, spinning an intricate web of predicaments, emotional reactions and resolutions in a domestic drama that leaves the viewer reeling by its conclusion. (...) Rating: ★★★½ (out of four)"	POS

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