Asghar Farhadi: Life & Cinema

Life and Cinema

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Pub Date Dec 09 2014 | Archive Date Nov 05 2015
PR by the Book | The Critical Press

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The release of A Separation (2011) was a milestone for Asghar Farhadi: After winning a slew of awards, including Iran's first Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, Farhadi was internationally celebrated as a new face in Iranian cinema. While Farhadi continues to establish himself as an auteur of suspenseful melodrama (his first international production, The Past, was released earlier this year), little has been written in Western film criticism about the director s filmography, which dates back to the early 2000s.

In Asghar Farhadi: Life and Cinema, Tina Hassannia traces Farhadi's origins as an Iranian scriptwriter and director and provides contextual analyses for each of his six feature films, which also includeDancing in the Dust, The Beautiful City, Fireworks Wednesday and About Elly.

In detailing Farhadi's cinematic influences and the history of the Iranian melodrama, Hassannia provides the first English introduction to this new Iranian master.

The release of A Separation (2011) was a milestone for Asghar Farhadi: After winning a slew of awards, including Iran's first Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, Farhadi was internationally...


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