Asghar Farhadi
Winners review – Oscar statuette goes missing in free-spirited ode to Iranian cinema
An award belonging to director Asghar Farhadi goes missing in Iran in this slow-paced, heart-on-sleeve comedy about the curative magic of the movies
Peter Bradshaw
14, Mar, 2023 @1:00 PM
Oscar-winning director Asghar Farhadi faces plagiarism trial in Iranian court
Director and grand prix winner at last year’s Cannes festival for A Hero was sued by former student for using story from her documentary without credit
Andrew Pulver
05, Apr, 2022 @4:12 PM
How Oscar-tipped Iranian drama A Hero nails social media fallout
The film by Asghar Farhadi is a rare example of capturing how social media influences our postures offline, while barely engaging with the internet itself
Adrian Horton
27, Jan, 2022 @2:50 PM
Oscar-winning Iranian director Asghar Farhadi: ‘Global recognition is double-edged’
He has been detained at airports and told never to return to Iran. But the director, who could be about to win his third Oscar, refuses to be silenced about outrages in his own country – and in the west
Steve Rose
10, Jan, 2022 @6:00 AM
A Hero review – powerful moral drama from a master of Iranian cinema
Two-time Oscar winner Asghar Farhadi hits home once more with this complex tale of a debtor who tries to make good
Simran Hans
09, Jan, 2022 @12:00 PM
Titane may not have been the best film at Cannes, but it had guts, drive – and an anthro-automotive hybrid devil child
Julia Ducournau has became the second woman ever to win the Palme d’Or at Cannes. Her triumph is a suitably rock’n’roll ending for this year’s festival
Peter Bradshaw
17, Jul, 2021 @8:21 PM
A Hero review – Asghar Farhadi’s realist tale is just too messy and unsatisfactory
Plot holes trip up the Iranian director’s drama of a slippery man’s desperate efforts to trick his way out of debtors’ prison
Peter Bradshaw
13, Jul, 2021 @3:50 PM
Cannes makes up for lost time with a thrilling auteur-packed lineup | Peter Bradshaw
After a year off, Leos Carax should have punters at each others’ throats – and Wes Anderson will boost the blood sugar
Peter Bradshaw
03, Jun, 2021 @2:09 PM
The Salesman: Arthur Miller’s American classic reframed in Iran
Asghar Farhadi’s Oscar-winning film about two married actors has intriguing parallels with the play they are performing
Chris Wiegand
11, May, 2021 @5:00 AM
Lost in translation: when film-makers hit the language barrier
Making films in another language is always a risk – for every Yorgos Lanthimos-style success, there’s a Wong Kar-wai disaster lurking around the corner
Caspar Salmon
24, Feb, 2020 @2:43 PM
The 100 best films of the 21st century
Gangsters, superheroes, schoolkids, lovers, slaves, peasants, techies, Tenenbaums and freefalling astronauts – they’re all here in our countdown of cinema’s best movies since 2000
Peter Bradshaw, Cath Clarke, Andrew Pulver and Catherine Shoard
13, Sep, 2019 @5:00 AM
Cannes 2018: Asghar Farhadi demands Iran lift travel ban on Jafar Panahi
At the press conference for opening night film Everybody Knows, Farhadi expressed solidarity for Panahi, whose new drama Three Faces is also playing in competition
Gwilym Mumford
09, May, 2018 @11:59 AM
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