Overview
The Salesman (2016)New at the Browning
Winner of both Best Actor and Best Screenplay at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival, this Iranian film generated substantial notoriety when Asghar Farhadi, already an Oscar winner for A Separation, decided not to attend the Academy Awards despite his nomination in protest to current American travel policies for Iran. That current political drama reverberates alongside Farhadi’s tense domestic film in which a young Tehrani couple (Shahab Hosseini and Taraneh Alidoosti) play the lead roles in a local production of Death of a Salesman. The couple also moves into a new house, and the strain they encounter further complicates a collapsing relationship.
