THE SALESMAN World Cinema

In Asghar Farhadi’s latest masterwork on domestic discord, a couple, Emad and Rana, have just moved into a new apartment. When a violent occurrence mars their housewarming — Rana is attacked by an intruder — Emad takes it upon himself to seek revenge on the perpetrator. A cell phone, a set of keys and a pickup truck lurking down the street are all clues Emad discovers in his investigation, but when he ultimately stumbles upon the culprit, this whodunit is suddenly undercut by the greater issue of what Emad must do with new, startling information. Observant, neorealist and fueled by slow-burn suspense, THE SALESMAN is a brilliant work of character-driven complexity. — Beth Hanna