Synopsis:

After winning his second Oscar for Best Foreign Film this year, Asghar Fahardi didn’t attend the ceremony as a protest against Trump’s discriminatory laws. Working again with two of his favourite actors, Shahab Hosseini and Taraneh Alidousti, the Iranian filmmaker tells the sentimental relationship of a couple of theatre actors, Emad and Rana. Their peaceful and stable marriage will be shaken when they’re forced to move house. The story develops in parallel to the actors staging of Arthur Miller’s play Death of a Salesman (1949). The parallelism between Miller’s and Fahardi’s works rests on the pace of an excellent script and the dramatic crescendo of both storylines that develop simultaneously. With great delicacy, Fahardi exposes in his brilliant denouement some ethical questions about guilt, shame for other people’s opinions, pride, thirst for revenge, forgiveness, but also about social prejudices. The Salesman questions the sexist education in Iranian society which applies to all societies. A story full of layers, with humane characters – with faults and virtues- which results in an extremely well told film.

2016: Prémios Óscar: Melhor filme de língua não inglesa

2016: Globos de Ouro: Nomeado melhor filme de língua não inglesa

2016: Festival de Cannes: Melhor actor (Shahab Hosseini) e guião

2016: National Board of Review (NBR): Melhor filme de língua não inglesa

2016: Critics Choice Awards: Nomeado melhor filme de língua não inglesa

2016: Festival Internacional de Valladolid - Seminci: Secção oficial

2016: Satellite Awards: Melhor filme de língua não inglesa