Review: Le Passe (2013)

The Past

“The Past” is a winner in the “Present” as well as the “Future”

Score: 8/10

Asghar Farhadi (director) has once again proved how talented he is with the family dramas. The movie right from the start keeps offering viewers something about their lives that adds to the whole picture of the situation. It very nakedly expresses how indecisive humans can get and how unknowingly we become a part of complexities that exhaust us. The movie very diplomatically points at no one as the villain or the hero, very much like his last film or like many of the acclaimed dramas that have come out over the years.

The quick sands of relations that pull us deep so slowly and the next moment we are stuck as much as we try to move. The layers are intertwined in a poetic fashion that help us deeply understand each one of the characters and their ordeal and yet blame no one for the situation. The acting stayed flawless throughout, justifying every inch of the master piece writing. The editing was sharp and keeps us focused without letting us realize any of the transitions with major gaps in the tensions. The beauty of the direction lies in how Asghar succeeds in turning a drama with elements of a thriller. The sheer consistency in his direction makes us viewers wait for his next with as much anticipation that he left us with after his last Oscar award winning drama, “A Separation”.

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