Asghar Farhadi

What makes a Asghar Farhadi film a Asghar Farhadi film

Across 6 films, they run far more ambiguity, much more cerebral and somewhat more melancholy than films in general. Their films resemble each other more than chance would account for, though not unusually so.

The line down the middle is the average film. A bar to the right means more of that reading than films in general, to the left less. Drawn from every film of theirs in the catalogue, not a selection.