Farhadi’s Le Passé nominated for 2013 Cannes Palme d'Or
Iran's Press TV reports that Academy Award-winning Iranian filmmaker Asghar Farhadi’s latest drama Le Passé (The Past) has entered the 2013 Cannes Palme d'Or nominee line up along with 18 other movies at the Main Competition section of the festival chaired by Steven Spielberg.
Farhadi’s immigrant romantic drama depicts the story of an Iranian man and his French wife as chronicles their family life. The Artist’s Argentine-French actress Bérénice Bejo who replaced former candidate Marion Cotillard along with the French actor of Algerian origin, Tahar Rahim and the acclaimed Iranian actor Ali Mosaffa star in the movie.
Le Passé is Farhadi’s sixth directorial experience but first filmmaking experience in a foreign country that was shot in the French capital, Paris. Named among the top 100 most anticipated films of 2013, the movie is scheduled to hit French movie theaters from May.
The feature film was coproduced by France 3 Cinéma (90%) and Italy's Bim Distribuzione (10%), with Argentine-French, Iranian, and Algerian-French actors, hence Cine Europa calls Farhadi along with Polish director Roman Polanski, and Chadian director Saleh Haroun a new generation of "Filmmakers of the world."
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