
2/5 stars
Asghar Farhadi, the esteemed, prize-winning Iranian director behind A Separation and The Salesman, returns to France for his third foreign excursion.
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2/5 stars
Asghar Farhadi, the esteemed, prize-winning Iranian director behind A Separation and The Salesman, returns to France for his third foreign excursion.
His first, 2013’s The Past, was a lean work that claimed Bérénice Bejo the best actress prize when it played at the Cannes Film Festival. This latest Parisian-set tale of voyeurism, which also unspools in Cannes’ main competition, is a bloated misfire, despite boasting the crème de la crème of French cinema.
At the core here is Isabelle Huppert’s ageing novelist Sylvie, who has a telescope in her flat trained on the building opposite while she seeks inspiration for her new book. Across the way is a sound recording studio, where Nicolas (Vincent Cassel), his brother Theo (Pierre Niney) and Nita (Virginie Efira) work closely.