“The Salesman” – A tough sale [MOVIE REVIEW]
Taraneh Alidoosti and Shahab Hosseini in The Salesman directed by Asghar Farhadi. Photo by Habib Majidi, courtesy of Amazon Studios and Cohen Media Group “The Salesman,” the latest film from Iranian master Asghar Farhadi (“A Separation,” “The Past”), is another strong character drama in which a tragic circumstance tears at the fabric of what had been a strong relationship. Present day Tehran has all the problems of big cities everywhere to which is added insoluble infrastructure problems, a metaphor for the lives Farhadi explores in “The Salesman.” Emad, a teacher, and his wife Rana are forced to evacuate their apartment building when the walls begin to fall around them. Members of a local theater company in the process of producing a sanitized version of “Death of a Salesman,” they are relieved when one of the group offers them a recently vacated apartment in a building he owns. They readily accept and move into the new apartment. Tragically, on an evening when Emad is late returning home, Rana, believing that it is her husband who has rung the building doorbell, leaves the door to their apartment open. When Emad arrives at the apartment he finds his wife being taken away by an…
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