Ahmed’s return soon exposes the fact that his relationship with Marie still lacks closure and there is a combination of affection and resentment that still pervades. Marie still insists on testing Ahmed’s feelings like announcing just minutes before their divorce judgement that she is pregnant with Samir’s child. Samir in turn feels Ahmed’s presence is threatening to his own relationship with Marie and insists moving back to his own apartment until Ahmed leaves town, and hopefully their lives, again.
The storyteller is Asghar Farhadi the Iranian auteur that won his country’s first ever Best Foreign Picture Oscar with his spellbinding ‘A Separation’ ….. another family drama about a couple having to make difficult decisions. This new one cannot possible match this but it comes pretty close with a rather stunning performance by Bérénice Bejo as the anguished Marie which won her the Best Actress Award at Cannes.
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Labels: 2013, award winning, drama, Iranian
