Further cementing himself as Iran’s (or anywhere’s) best
director of taut human drama, Asghar Farhadi gives us an excellent follow up to
A Separation, the film that won the
Oscar for Foreign Language Film and made many critics’ top ten lists (including
my own) two years ago. The Past is a
masterful display of a great writer at work. Starting from the classical
position of staging drama in a condensed period of time, it takes place over a
handful of days during which enough secrets, emotions, and hidden motivations
are revealed to fill a couple more movies.
