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The Past
Directed by
Asghar Farhadi
PG-13
2013
2h 10m
Drama
,
Mystery
7.7
92%
83%
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An Iranian man deserts his French wife and her two children to return to his homeland. Meanwhile, his wife starts up a new relationship, a reality her husband confronts upon his wife's request for a divorce.
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Cast of The Past
Bérénice Bejo
Marie Brisson
Ali Mosaffa
Ahmad
Tahar Rahim
Samir
Pauline Burlet
Lucie
Elyes Aguis
Fouad
Jeanne Jestin
Léa
Sabrina Ouazani
Naïma
Babak Karimi
Shahryar
Valeria Ross
Valeria
Aleksandra Klebanska
Celine
Jean-Michel Simonet
Médecin
Pierre Guerder
Juge
Anne-Marion de Cayeux
Avocate
Eléonora Marino
Collègue Marie
Jonathan Devred
Agent aéroport
Sylviane Fraval
Infirmière
Asghar Farhadi
Director / Writer
Alexandre Mallet-Guy
Producer
The Past Ratings & Reviews
Detroit News
Tom Long
Farhadi has pulled off the dysfunctional family mystery trick twice now, brilliantly, and perhaps three times in a row would be too much. But it's doubtful he will leave behind the fertile ground of family ties and modern messiness. He sees so much there.
Seattle Times
Moira MacDonald
"The Past" is long and occasionally feels slow - as real life sometimes does - but never false.
Austin Chronicle
Kimberley Jones
Think you've nailed down a character? Wait another five minutes. It's rare to see so many characters, including children, afforded so much nuance.
Denver Post
Lisa Kennedy
What a teller of domestic truths Asghar Farhadi has become.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Steven Rea
A thickly knotted and compelling tale, set in an unglamorous, working-class Paris, it churns with complex emotions, suspense, guilt, and regret.
Arizona Republic
Barbara VanDenburgh
Farhadi again burrows deep into his characters to tell an achingly intimate story, spinning grand tragedies out of minor lives in which the past lingers in the air, a perfume that haunts long after its wearer has left the room.
Chicago Sun-Times
Bill Stamets
Iranian writer-director Asghar Farhadi creates detailed characters in distinctive circumstances, bypassing script cliches of domestic tension.
Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com
Cary Darling
While not as powerful as [A Separation] ,The Past nevertheless is a fascinating, slow-burn depiction of a relationship in crisis.
Boston Globe
Ty Burr
An impeccable work that moves forward steadily and without much dynamic modulation, it's a movie not for people who want to escape the world but for those who want to understand it better.
Washington Post
Michael O'Sullivan
"The Past" has something important and powerful to say about the past. It doesn't shape or haunt the present. In a sense, Farhadi suggests, they exist alongside each other.
Chicago Tribune
Michael Phillips
Even with a bit of dramaturgical clunkiness "The Past" is fluid, intimate cinema.
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman
A wrenchingly intimate tale of lives torn asunder by forces within and without them.
Christian Science Monitor
Peter Rainer
The emotional stakes are large-scale, and Farhadi honors them by delving into their intricacies. All the characters in this movie, including Marie's sullen eldest teenage daughter (beautifully played by Pauline Burlet), are given their due.
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
"The Past" makes conventional movies feel artificial. Watching the characters interact in this movie feels like "Here is real life," and real life just happens to be strangely compelling.
New York Magazine/Vulture
David Edelstein
It's as if Farhadi became too depressed by his own cynicism to keep the drama humming. The movie turns into a dour demonstration of missed connections.
RogerEbert.com
Godfrey Cheshire
[A] brilliantly mounted drama concerning fracturing families, hidden motives and the difficulties of attaining stability in a rapidly changing world.
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Leonard Maltin
Writer-director Asghar Farhad works so well with his actors that everything seems genuine and naturalistic, even the scenes involving young children.
New York Post
Farran Smith Nehme
If "The Past" doesn't equal the masterpiece that preceded it, it's still an exceptional film from a man who is clearly one of the best working directors.
New York Times
Manohla Dargis
The narrative complications can be distracting, at times exasperating, but they're finally irrelevant because Mr. Farhadi's filmmaking is so fluid, and the performers, Ms. Bejo, in particular, are so attractive.
USA Today
Claudia Puig
Almost hypnotically compelling, spinning an intricate web of predicaments, emotional reactions and resolutions in a domestic drama that leaves the viewer reeling by its conclusion.
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