A Marriage Crumbles in the Gripping Iranian Drama <i>The Salesman</i>
The latest Oscar-nominated film from Asghar Farhadi follows a couple whose relationship begins to fray as they’re acting in a production of <em>Death of a Salesman</em>.
begins with what seems like an earthquake—the ground starts to shake at a comfortable-looking abode in Tehran, cracks suddenly appear in the walls, and the happily married Emad (Shahab Hosseini) and Rana (Taraneh Alidoosti) have to flee into the street. The newest film from Iran’s master of the domestic potboiler, Asghar Farhadi, is as subtly and methodically told as his other works, but to begin, he does allow himself one obvious visual metaphor. Emad and Rana’s life together is going to come apart at the scenes, seemingly out
