Asghar Farhadi

A scarcely credible blunder has overshadowed one of the biggest upsets in recent Oscar history. On Sunday evening, Barry Jenkins’s Moonlight, the stor(...)

Spoiler alert! La La Land is going to win best picture at this weekend’s Oscars. Roll up the red carpet. Shelve the champagne flutes. Send the televis(...)

The star of Iran’s Oscar-nominated movie, The Salesman, said on Thursday she would not attend the Academy Awards ceremony in Hollywood next month beca(...)

‘Spring is here. Spring is here. Life is skittles. Life is beer.” So sang Tom Lehrer in Poisoning Pigeons in the Park. Or is it early summer? Either(...)

This tremendously sure-footed debut feature from Iranian director Nima Javidi is already being talked about as this year’s A Separation; it carries th(...)

A tall, ravishing brunette with a superior air, drenched in Chanel 5, greets visitors to a gallery opening in north Tehran. Women flaunt their long(...)

Ahmad (Ali Mosaffa, excellent) returns to France from Iran, ostensibly to finalise his divorce from Marie (Bérénice Bejo), whom he has not seen(...)

The Cannes Film Festival came to a close last night with the presentation of the Palme d’Or, awarded for best fil(...)

The streets of Cannes were, yesterday afternoon, buzzing with a proper grown-up news story when it emerged that $1 million worth of jewels had (...)

The Past **** Directed by Asghar Farhadi. Starring Bérénice Bejo, Tahar Rahim, Ali Mosaffa, Pauline Burlet, Elyes Aguis (...)