The Salesman is the superb new film from Asghar Farhadi (A Separation, The Past).

The film won Best Screenplay and Best Actor for Shahab Hosseini in Cannes and went on to win Best Foreign Language Film at this year's Academy Awards.

When their Tehran flat is damaged in the dramatic opening scenes of the film, Emad and Rana, a young married couple, are forced to move into another flat, loaned by a friend, not realising the previous tenant was a prostitute.

Thinking it is Emad, Rana lets a stranger into the house while she is washing her hair.

The assault that follows opens a rift between the couple as Rana seeks solitude and Emad seeks revenge.

Set against a production of Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman in which Emad and Rana appear as Willy and Linda Loman, The Salesman is an unflinching examination of a marriage pushed to its limits and the frailties of Iranian society and gender politics, as well as a masterfully tense and emotionally complex examination of anger, fear, guilt and revenge, that stands proudly among Farhadi’s best films. 

Tickets are $16 including coffee cakes and chatting. 

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