Winner of last year’s Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, The Salesman did not receive a wide release until this year, and it is one of Farhadi’s most powerful films yet.
The imitation between art and life blurs after two married actors are forced to evacuate their apartment and find themselves dealing with an unexpected tragedy, which results from the previous tenant’s dissolute lifestyle.
The different ways the husband and wife respond to that tragedy threatens not only to derail their production of Death of a Salesman, but also to break apart their marriage as the husband’s quest for justice becomes less about his wife and more about his own desire for vengeance.
The most remarkable aspect of the film is the way it handles questions of forgiveness, reputation, and healing, reminding us to whom those abilities belong.
—Evan Cogswell, Catholic Cinephile
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2017 Arts & Faith Ecumenical Jury — #2