FILM: PARALLEL TALES **** intense fluid multi-layered script

HISTOIRES PARALLÈLES (Parallel Tales) **** (vo French, with English subtitles) What a relief – it seems three’s a charm. Meaning that Asghar Farhadi’s third film made outside Iran has finally recaptured his past brilliance, both in his intense yet fluid, multi-layered script and his flawless directorial touch.

FILM: PARALLEL TALES **** intense fluid multi-layered script. HISTOIRES PARALLÈLES (Parallel Tales) **** (vo French, with English subtitles) What a relief – it seems three’s a charm. Meaning that Asghar Farhadi’s third film made outside Iran has finally recaptured his past brilliance, both in his intense yet fluid, multi-layered script and his flawless directorial touch. And he has somehow grasped the French psyche, along with assembling an amazing cast including Isabelle Huppert, Virginie Efira, Vincent Cassel, Pierre Niney, and a brief cameo featuring Catherine Deneuve. They are all major stars, but Farhadi has moulded them into characters who feel like any one of us. That is his inherent talent, now re-emerging like a new shoot in foreign soil. His superb, award-winning films such as “About Elly”, “The Salesman” and his masterpiece, “A...