Asghar Farhadi on Paris-Set ‘Parallel Tales’ and Returning to War-Battered Iran: ‘It’s Like Having a Sick Mother…You Cannot Leave Her and Just Let Her Be’
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Two-time Oscar-winning Iranian auteur Asghar Farhadi is back in Cannes for the fifth time with French-language drama “ Parallel Tales ,” a film he made in exile after leaving Iran in 2022. He had decided not to return following the death of Mahsa Amini and the ensuing protests that prompted the “Woman, Life, Freedom” uprising which marked the most significant challenge to the Islamic Republic since the 1979 revolution. Since then, the director of “A Separation,” “The Salesman” and “A Hero,”
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