Iranian filmmaker Asghar Farhadi has built a career out of making these strong and intense family dramas. With "About Elly," "A Separation," "The Past," "The Salesman," and “A Hero,” the Iranian-born writer-director has easily cemented his name on the shortlist of modern world-class filmmakers.
I’m hearing his next film will be set in Los Angeles and that it could start production right after the strike. This would be Farhadi’s first American film, after having directed projects in France, Spain and his native Iran.
The only time the 48-year-old Farhadi ever disappointed me was when he helmed the Spanish-language drama "Everybody Knows," which I saw at Cannes 2018. It was a half-decent whodunnit affair, but we'd come to expect much more from him at that point.
Plot details are being kept under wraps about this latest film, it is set to be the 10th feature length-film of Farhadi’s career. His last one was 2021’s “A Hero” which won the Grand Prix at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival.