Cannes 2016: Asghar Farhadi's 'The Salesman' is a Solid Morality Tale

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Anyone who isn’t familiar with this filmmaker yet needs to start watching his films. Asghar Farhadi is an Iranian filmmaker with quite a few films on his filmography already, including most recently A Separation (which won the Academy Award in 2011) and The Past. Farhadi returns to the Cannes Film Festival with his latest film, titled The Salesman (originally titled Forushande), and while it doesn’t top A Separation it’s a very solid morality tale that deals with the issue of revenge and fear. The first film that comes to mind that handles this topic similarly is The Revenant, another story of revenge where the lesson is that revenge is an empty pursuit that doesn’t provide satisfaction, only more pain or suffering. A lesson learned the hard way. ›››

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