with exquisite patience and attention to detail, Asghar Farhadi, the writer and director, builds a solid and suspenseful plot out of ordinary incidents, and packs it with rich and resonant ideas
it's an effectively feel-bad story, deploying a torrent of wounded, retrograde masculinity to make uttering the word "rape" an even greater transgression than the event itself
Farhadi, who directs all his films in a lucid, easy-to-follow style, carefully laces trip wires of revelation throughout the story
Review rate : Aby Joe McGovern[Entertainment Weekly ]
"The Salesman" isn't always the tightest or most purposeful of Farhadi's explorations of the fragility of relationships, but the last 30 minutes of this one alone are a marvel of moral suspense and mini-tragedy
by Sara Stewart [New York Post ]
