ASGHAR FARHADI | FRANCE | 2013 | 130' | FRENCH, PERSIAN SPOKEN | Dutch subtitles
After his Oscar winning film A Separation (World Cinema Amsterdam's opening film in 2011) Iranian director Asghar Farhadi again demonstrates his unique ability to fathom complex and painful human emotions with Le Passé. This is the first time he shot an entire film outside his native country.
After four years in Iran, Ahmad returns to France to arrange the official divorce from his French wife Marie. She needs this in order to be able to marry her new partner Samir. Ahmad quickly discovers that her life is fraught with major problems. Why for example is her teenage daughter Lucie so angry and rebellious? And what happened to Samir's wife, who has been lying in a coma in hospital for eight months? Unprocessed memories crop up and interfere. Ahmad inevitably is pulled into this all.
As the events unfold Farhadi gradually reveals more about past happenings – a past that the characters prefer to repress.
Ahmad is played by famous Iranian actor Ali Mosaffa, Samir by Tahar Rahim (Un prophéte) and Marie by Bérénice Bejo (The Artist). Bejo received the Best Actress award for this role at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival.
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