A Hero, 2021. Written and Directed by Asghar Farhadi. Starring Amir Jadidi, Mohsen Tanabande, Fereshteh Sadr Orafaee, Sahar Goldust, Maryam Shahdaie, Ali Reza Jahandideh, Ehsan Goodarzi, Sarina Farhadi, Farrokh Nourbakht, Mohammad Aghebati, and Saleh Karimai. SYNOPSIS: Rahim is in prison because of a debt he was unable to repay. During a two-day leave, he tries […]
57th Chicago International Film Festival Capsule Review – A Hero
A Hero, 2021. Written and Directed by Asghar Farhadi. Starring Amir Jadidi, Mohsen Tanabande, Fereshteh Sadr Orafaee, Sahar Goldust, Maryam Shahdaie, Ali Reza Jahandideh, Ehsan Goodarzi, Sarina Farhadi, Farrokh Nourbakht, Mohammad Aghebati, and Saleh Karimai. SYNOPSIS: Rahim is in prison because of a debt he was unable to repay. During a two-day leave, he tries […]
Movie Review – Everybody Knows (2018)
Everybody Knows, 2018. Directed by Asghar Farhadi. Starring Penelope Cruz, Javier Bardem, Ricardo Darín, Bárbara Lennie, Ramón Barea, Inma Cuesta, Elvira Mínguez, José Ángel Egido and Carla Campra. SYNOPSIS: When a teenage girl goes missing during the frivolities of a wedding reception, family and friends discover buried secrets and unspoken turmoil as they try to […]
Penelope Cruz and Javier Bardem star in trailer for Everybody Knows
Focus Features has released a new poster and trailer for the psychological thriller Everybody Knows. Written and directed by Asghar Farhadi (The Salesman), the film stars Penelope Cruz, Javier Bardem, and Ricardo Darin; take a look here… The film follows Laura (Cruz) on her travels from Argentina to her small home town in Spain for her […]
DVD Review – The Salesman (2016)
The Salesman, 2016. Directed by Asghar Farhadi. Starring Taraneh Alidoost, Shahab Hosseini, Farid Sajjadi Hosseini, and Babak Karimi. SYNOPSIS: In modern-day Iran, a teacher and his wife are preparing for the opening night of their amateur production of Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman. But work on an adjacent building makes their own apartment block […]
Trailer and poster for Everybody Knows starring Penelope Cruz and Javier Bardem
Ahead of its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival, a trailer and three new posters have arrived online for writer-director Asghar Farhadi’s (The Salesman) upcoming psychological thriller Everybody Knows which stars Penelope Cruz, Javier Bardem, and Ricardo Darin; take a look here… The psychological thriller follows Laura who travels with her family from Buenos Aires to […]
