The Past (film)
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| Directed by | Asghar Farhadi |
| Produced by | Alexandre Mallet-Guy |
| Written by | Asghar Farhadi |
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Bérénice Bejo Tahar Rahim Ali Mosaffa |
| Music by | Youli Galperine Evgueni Galperine |
| Cinematography | Mahmoud Kalari |
| Edited by | Juliette Welfling |
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| Distributed by | Memento Films (France) BIM Distribuzione (Italy) Filmiran (Iran) |
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130 minutes |
| Country | France Italy Iran |
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French Persian Italian |
| Budget | $8 million |
| Box office | $10.6 million |
The Past (French: Le Passé, Persian: گذشته Gozašte) is a 2013 French–Italian–Iranian drama film, written and directed by Iranian director Asghar Farhadi and starring Bérénice Bejo, Tahar Rahim and Ali Mosaffa.
The film was nominated for the Palme d'Or award at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival and won the festival's Prize of the Ecumenical Jury. Bejo also won the festival's Best Actress Award. It was shown at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival.
The film was selected as the Iranian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 86th Academy Awards, but it was not nominated. The film was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the 71st Golden Globe Awards.
Ahmad, an Iranian man, returns to France after four years to finalise his divorce with his wife Marie. On the way to her home, he learns that she has begun a relationship with Samir, the owner of a dry cleaning service and he is to share a room with Samir's son Fouad. At Marie's request, he speaks to her daughter from a previous marriage, Lucie, regarding her recent troubled behavior. Lucie disapproves of Marie's new relationship.
Ahmad and Marie attend court to complete their divorce. Just before the meeting with the officials, she tells him that she is pregnant with Samir's child. Ahmad continues to counsel Lucie, hoping to reconcile her to the situation. She reveals that Samir is still married and his wife is in coma after a suicide attempt, caused by the revelation that Samir and Marie were conducting an affair. Samir tells Ahmad that his wife suffered from depression and the suicide attempt was in fact caused by an incident with a customer in his shop. His wife was unaware of his affair and he arranges for Naïma, his employee, who witnessed both the suicide attempt and the incident in the shop, to meet with Lucie.
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