Title: Asghar Farhadi
Description: "In 2012, A Separation became the first Iranian film to win the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. This was a milestone not just for Iranian cinema, but for the film's director, Asghar Farhadi. Though now celebrated world-wide ... Farhadi's career nevertheless remains under-explored among international audiences ... [this] provides the first extensive analysis of this important auteur's work, from his beginning as a screenwriter and earliest features to ... The Past. Including a long and in-depth interview with the director himself, [this] details the filmmaker's influences, development and maturation, providing the first English introduction to this new Iranian master"--Publisher's description.
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation, Motion picture producers and directors, Screenwriters
Places: Iran
People: Aṣghar Farhādī (1972-)