André Bazin once described cinema as the “mummification of time”: the preservation of reality’s physical body from the ravages of decay and the encroachment of oblivion. If, at the beginning
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The occasion for this essay is Parallel Tales, the latest film by Asghar Farhadi, which premiered in competition at the 2026 Cannes Film Festival and is his tenth feature film.
Seifollah Samadian now has another distinction to his name: an award from the Cinema Museum, honoring his decades-long presence in the world of images. But if we are to talk
I watch Sylvie, the writer in Parallel Tales by Asghar Farhadi, spying on her neighbors, and I am reminded of myself standing by the window of my room. From my
In Everything That Will Happen Has Already Happened (2024), Serbian-American filmmaker Vladan Nikolić has created a semi-experimental, avant-garde work that, through a collage of short stories, paints a picture of
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Revenge is one of those subjects that Iranian cinema has repeatedly returned to, each time managing to draw from it a dramatic and emotionally charged situation. This is because Revenge