The great Iranian director Asghar Farhadi is back in Cannes competition for a fifth time with his first film in five years and arguably one that ranks with his very best. That is a high bar since two of his movies, 2011’s A Separationand 2016’s The Salesman, both went on to win the Best Foreign Language (now International) Feature Academy Award. His most recent film, *A Hero,*took the Grand Prix in Cannes in 2021.
Returning with the gripping, cleverly reimagined Parallel Tales and working again outside his native country, Farhadi has come up with a French movie that is wickedly entertaining, a twisty and smart tale “freely” inspired by director Krzyszof Kieslowski’s legendary 10- hour television series Dekalog. Not wanting to do the entire 10 episodes, all based on the Ten Commandments, he chose Episode Six (later expanded to A Short Film About Love) to inspire a full-length feature film for which he took its basic idea of a lovestruck man spying on the neighboring woman in an apartment across the street.
Source: deadline.com