Adolescence is a fertile metaphor for the strangeness and insecurity inherent in the transition from one world to another.
It’s at the juncture between horror and philosophical surrealism that The Night is at its most provocative.
Asghar Farhadi’s film yields a tonal and emotional friction that’s simultaneously tragic, transcendent, and comic.
Asghar Farhadi’s sensibility embodies a combination of empathy and paranoia that’s striking considering that the latter is normally driven by self-absorption.
Farhadi’s film remains one of the most important films of the young decade to date.
An air of resignation hangs prominently over Goodbye.
To read A Separation as a metaphor on both a big and small scale is not just accurate but unavoidable.