FROM FALSEHOOD TO TRUTH THREE FILMS BY IRANIAN DIRECTOR ASGHAR FARHADI Cover Image

OD LŽI K PRAVDE TRI FILMY IRÁNSKEHO REŽISÉRA ASGHARA FARHADIHO
FROM FALSEHOOD TO TRUTH THREE FILMS BY IRANIAN DIRECTOR ASGHAR FARHADI

Author(s): Viera Langerová
Subject(s): Fine Arts / Performing Arts, Poetry, Theology and Religion, Islam studies, Social development, Film / Cinema / Cinematography, Drama, Sociology of Art
Published by: Ústav divadelnej a filmovej vedy SAV
Keywords: iránsky film; Asghar Farhadi; perzská poézia; filmový jazyk; dramatická stavba; príbeh; súfizmus; šíitizmus; islam; skrytý význam; metaforický potenciál; kultúrny kontext;

Summary/Abstract: In 2012, the Slovak cinemas screened award winning Iranian film A Separation, with numerous awards from international film festivals, among others American Film Critics Award Golden Globe and American Film Academy Award for foreign language film, Oscar. It was the first ever Oscar awarded to an Iranian film and the first Iranian film in our distribution. Last year’s Cannes Film Festival premiered Farhadi’s latest film The Past, which follows the theme of family relationships in crisis. Along with the film About Elly from 2009, these films offer an extensive insight into the internal affairs of the society, seeking a balance between the requirements of theological state and pressure of modernization and secularism on the needs of everyday life. The content and dramaturgical structure of these stories additionally refer to artistic constants such as Persian poetic tradition and Islamic mysticism, and thus bring distinctive features into the concept of European approach to relationships among the people.

  • Issue Year: 62/2014
  • Issue No: 02
  • Page Range: 216-224
  • Page Count: 9
  • Language: Slovak