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The Salesman (Iran / France, 2016, dir. Asghar Farhadi) by Kamyar Mohsenin After his triumphs with ABOUT ELLY, A SEPARATION and LE PASSE, Asghar Farhadi forgets all about sublime matter of life and death and begins falling in love with the graceful issue of dignity. So unlike Pietro Germi’s SEDUCED AND ABANDONED, Farhadi’s THE SALESMAN invites the audience to focus seriously on “honor” and not a tragic issue as a “tumor”. Obviously the traditional attitudes does not match the modeist perspectives of Arthur Miller’s DEATH OF A SALESMAN and director desperately seeks a way to make a bridge between the American play and the Iranian film, but apparently he does not succeed. If Farhadi had dealt with the economical crisis instead of the lost honor, he would have easily built that bridge, but now… he just makes a twist towards American film pattes where the protagonist is simply able to recognize the truth, solve the problem and seek revenge on the evil man. So now there Cinema-Dream...ادامه مطلب

Malaria (Iran, 2016, dir. Parviz Shahbazi) by Kamyar Mohsenin   In the beginning, it is so hard to digest the illogical sequences of improbable incidents – especially because of their contrast to the naturalistic imagery. But gradually the film starts to take shape when portraying the Iranian X Generation today. Surrendered to any waves coming from very different directions, the young characters are absolutely ready to take great risks for nothing. But there is something truly important in their lives. Evidently a cell phone means everything to them: a beloved to sing for; a friend to rely on; an eye to see through it; etc. Therefore in the absence of logical relationships, the hollowness is underlined. In other words, characters’ absurd relation to each other and their surroundings leads to the portrayal of hollow human beings and hollow society. Thus the city tus into a circus. The young characters are depicted as the pitiful clowns performing in the squares and joining people Cinema-Dream...ادامه مطلب