was originally deemed too specific for an international market. “When I wrote the script, people who read [it] told me, ‘Why you want to make this movie? This is a very local film about Iran, and nobody outside of Iran would understand this,’ ” Farhadi recently toldIt was seen as such a risky project that he wasn’t able to finance the English subtitles until a representative for the Berlin Film Festival watched the film with a Persian translator by her side.
Though he is a vocal critic of his government, Farhadi made clear his love for Iranians when he dedicated the Oscar to them, “a people who respect all cultures and civilizations and despise hostility and resentment.” He joined an elite group of filmmakers with multiple international Oscars when his dramaThis story first appeared in a December stand-alone issue of The Hollywood Reporter magazine.
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