gherson Walked out. Film is stupid, annoying: The movie is so anti-sex that the characters kept accusing a prior neighbor of promiscuity, to blame her and explain the ensuing evil (the rape, primarily). The supposedly intelligent husband stupidly assumes, without talking to her about it, that his wife is ready to jump right back on stage after being violently raped and hospitalized.

cinemajesty Film Review: "The Salesman" (2016)Running in competition alongside "I, Daniel Blake" directed by Ken Loach and "The Handmaiden" directed by Park-Chon-Wook, the latest film by director Asghar Farhadi is slow-burn character-driven drama with suspense elements that crawl under the spectator's skin in scenes of a restraint mainly handheld camera by fellow collaborator Hossein Jafarian, who together with director Farhadi recreate a constant-moving world for a young couple Rana & Emad, portrayed by match-making actors Taraneh Alidoosti and Shahab Hosseini, feeling into an utmost inconvenient scenario for the main character to endure coming from a collapsing apartment building into the used flat of a former prostitute, only to get trapped into a gripping emotional journey of leading man Emad finding the abuser of his wife alongside a self-therapeutic stage realization of Arthur Hiller's classic "Death of a Salesman", which feels put into place of a stretched editorial of 120 Minutes, when director Asghar Farhadi must admit that he avoids full commitment to his self-refelcted spine at hand with an avenging murder over money, emotional dominion and sexual abuse.Nevertheless even though the director's recent films seem difficult to enter at first glance, as critically most-acclaimed "A Separation" (2011), for a common audience, who needs to sit through in order to receive an emotional as controversial reward of one of the most internationally promising director on his road to another Cannes motion picture installment, expected to be in competition at the Festival's 71st edition from May 8th to May1 19th 2018 with a promising drama starring Penélope Cruz & Javier Bardem on a from Latein-America-returning Spanish woman with husband and children to an suburban home town near Madrid, unraveling further secrets of the characters' strangled subconscious.FAZIT: Picture approved (accessible) © 2018 Felix Alexander Dausend (Cinemajesty Entertainments LLC)

rockman182 This film made waves at the Academy Awards (not just for the Academy boycott). I've been meaning to check it out at some point, and finally had the opportunity to watch it on an airplane during a flight. I've heard of A Separation but never watched it. Going in pretty blind into this film, I was very pleased with the end product. I read Death of a Salesman in high school and was able to spot some parallels.The film is about a husband and wife who work in theatre (on a production of Death of a Salesman). One night their apartment starts collapsing so they move into a new apartment. Soon the wife gets attacked in the shower while waiting for her husband. The husband becomes consumed with finding out who attacked his wife and attempts to pursue the culprit even as relationships around him start falling apart.A lot of people didn't find this to be as good as A Separation, or so I've heard. I thought the script for the film was quite sharp. Like Billy Loman in Death of a Salesman , Emad's relationship is on the rocks. He must also try to avoid the humiliation of what occurred within his family and must wrong the right. While the film is a bit of a slow burn on finding out who committed the act, the clues leading up to the reveal and the ride is very fun to be a part of.I found the last 30 minutes or so of the film to be powerful and it also helps to ascend the film to a higher rating. Its gripping and hard to keep your eyes off of what happens next. Its suspenseful but yet innocuous You know there's no immediate danger to the lead but wow its a joy to watch what transpires. I will have to eventually check out A Separation, especially if its more acclaimed than this.8/10

asc85 I'm someone who really liked, "A Separation," so I was looking forward to this film which has of course received high critical acclaim. The first half of this movie was compelling...what happened to the wife, and will they find the person who attacked her? But then when the "explanation" is given, it doesn't really make any sense, and the question really isn't answered. Why do I say that? Because the guy accused of attacking the wife doesn't seem like he'd be able to do it. So what is the explanation for that? There is no explanation. Oh well.So then I decide to watch the extra on the DVD, where the director explains what he was trying to accomplish. This will surely help me understand this picture better! But it didn't. Apparently, to really "get" this film, you have to be well-versed in the play "Death of a Salesman," (which I read in high school, by the way), which is also being performed by an acting troupe in this movie. Seriously! So I guess I just wasn't smart enough to appreciate this film. I guess all the critics who loved it and the Academy who gave it the Best Foreign Film Oscar are much smarter and hipper than me.