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- [New] | Allen Almachar @ The MacGuffin
- Excerpt: This is filmmaking at its best.
- Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: Farhadi is known for crafting tales which appear black and white on the surface but reveal grayer and grayer layers the more we learn about his characters. Such is the case with his latest, easily his best film since his breakout hit “A Separation.”
- Sarah E Boslaugh @ The Arts STL
- Excerpt: A Hero has no soundtrack, a choice which highlights the ambient sounds of each location and also focuses attention on the rich network of social relations among the characters.
- Lee Jutton @ Film Inquiry
- Excerpt: Farhadi’s latest, A Hero, once again returns to the themes of societal strife that have run through his previous films, including Academy Award-winners A Separation and The Salesman, to tell the story of a man imprisoned for his inability to repay a debt and the storm of public attention that ensues when he does a (seemingly) good deed. The film’s title is deceptively simple and thus perfectly articulates the drama at the center of the story, for what starts as a straightforward way for one man to clear his conscience rapidly spirals out of control into something far more complicated.
- Jared Mobarak @ JaredMobarak.com
- Excerpt: The pieces are worth a bit more than the whole simply because the lesson being taught isn’t necessarily one that needs to be constantly compounded by more examples of itself.
