Film

“A Separation,” Asghar Farhadi’s latest moral drama, is a painful, compassionate, and powerful film. Farhadi dissolves the traditional notions of good and evil, and dives into the complicated and messy subjectivity of truth and morality [...]...

In 2010, Mohammad Rasoulof, along with the fellow Iranian auteur Jafar Panahi, was arrested on charges of collusion against the Iranian government. He is currently under house arrest. [...]...

When I think about “dark,” in a general context of genre, my expectation is more often than not, weight or heavy handedness. Filmmakers exploring violence can fall into the trap of excess, and those interested in mystery lean on abstraction or purposeful incoherence, a la Lynch derivatives [...]...