Asghar Farhadi Lives in Iran, but Won’t Make Movies There
Asghar Farhadi has returned to the Cannes Competition with his film 'Parallel Tales,' inspired by Krzysztof Kieślowski's 'Dekalog: Six,' though he continues to live in Iran without making films there. Despite preferring to work in his native language and country, Farhadi has chosen to make films abroad due to restrictions on creative freedom in Iran. His latest project marks his second French-language film, reflecting his interest in exploring new cultural and linguistic contexts.
- ▪Asghar Farhadi's new film 'Parallel Tales' is inspired by Kieślowski's 'Dekalog: Six' but reimagined as an original story.
- ▪Farhadi refuses to make films in Iran as long as he must seek government permits and cannot work freely.
- ▪He previously faced plagiarism allegations over his film 'A Hero,' but was acquitted because the source material was in the public domain.
- ▪'Parallel Tales' is Farhadi's second French-language film, following 'The Past,' and he has also made films in Spanish.
- ▪Farhadi admires Kieślowski's humanism and compassion for characters, particularly in works like 'Three Colors: Blue' and the documentary 'Talking Heads.'
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Asghar Farhadi returns to the Cannes Competition for the fifth time with his tenth feature, “Parallel Tales,” loosely inspired by the late Polish filmmaker Krzysztof Kieślowski’s 1988 “Dekalog: Six,” covering the commandment “Thou shalt not commit adultery.” Five years ago, Farhadi, who lives with his family in Tehran, was approached to participate in a TV series adapting all ten of the one-hour Dekalogs. Farhadi was not interested in making television and proceeded to shoot “A Hero” (2021), which won him the Cannes Grand Prix and also landed him in court on plagiarism charges. He was eventually acquitted on the grounds that the real-life incident that inspired the film, which a student in one of his film workshops turned into a documentary, was in the pubic domain.
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