A Tribute to director Asghar Farhadi: “The Salesman”
Fri 09 Jun 2017, 7.30 pm
TPD
From TPD:
Over the past two decades, Iranian cinema has been criticized as one of the most important cinemas in the world by critics, filmmakers and of course the mass audiences.
With the achievements and contributions to the arts through the famous works of filmmakers such as Abbas Kiarostami, Jafar Panahi, Samira Makhmalbaf, Asghar Farhadi, Majid Majidi, Iran cinema is compared with the Neo-reality movement in Italy during 40-50s.
One of the most important filmmakers in the last few years of Iranian cinema is director Asghar Farhadi. He has won two Oscars, Golden Globes, Cannes, Berlin and a series of other big and small film festival awards.
In this June, you are invited to the screening of three films directed by Asghar Farhadi: The Salesman (2016), A Separation (2011) and About Elly (2009) with The Salesman in the first week.
Film notes
THE SALES MAN • Iran • 2016
PG-13 | 125′ | Drama • Thriller
Director: Asghar Farhadi
The Salesman (Persian: فروشنده, translit. Forušande) is directed and written by Asghar Farhadi and starring Taraneh Alidoosti and Shahab Hosseini. It is about a married couple who is performing Arthur Miller’s play “Death of a Salesman” on stage when the wife is assaulted. Her husband attempts to determine the identity of the attacker, while she struggles to cope with post-trauma stress. Farhadi chose Miller’s play as his story within a story based on shared themes. The film was shot in Tehran, beginning in 2015.
The film premiered in competition in the 2016 Cannes Film Festival, where it won two awards — Best Screenplay and Best Actor for Hosseini. The Salesman went on to receive more positive reviews, and won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. [Wikipedia]
Language: Persian with Vietnamese subtitles
• The film screening is for educational purpose and fundraising for Young Cinema Fund of TPD.
• Donation (at the door): 20,000 VND/audience.
• Doors open at 7 pm and close when the screening room is full.
• Seats are assigned on the first-come-first-served basis.
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Watch the film’s trailer here:
Translated by Hanoi Grapevine
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