Director Asghar Farhadi's "Parallel Tales (Histoires Parallèles)" features plenty of rear window spying and voyeuristic uses of audio equipment, but despite easy comparisons to the works of Hitchcock, ...

Making his second feature in France, the Iranian director meditates on fiction and reality but never draws us into his drama of trickery and deceit. As she starts the writing process, she pecks at the ...

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 ...

Vincent Cassel, Pierre Niney and Adam Bessa also star in the Oscar-winning Iranian director's drama about voyeurism and ...

Art and life are in conversation in Parallel Tales, an intriguing but ultimately frustrating exploration of the mysteries of storytelling. Loosely basing his film on the sixth chapter of Krzysztof ...

Loosely based on the sixth chapter of Krzysztof Kieślowski's Dekalog and its eventual adaptation, A Short Film about Love, Asghar Farhadi’s Parallel Tales is in no way short and hardly about anything.