Unpacking Iranian Director Farhadi's Oscar-Night Balancing Act
ahead of winning his second Oscar, for the taut "neorealist" suspense film The Salesman, but the reviews have been more mixed for his long-distance acceptance speech. Farhadi's reaction to this year's best-foreign-film honor -- delivered live in Los Angeles by the world's first female space tourist, Iranian-born engineer Anousheh Ansari, and another Iranian-American ( Firouz Naderi, a former director of Solar Systems Exploration at NASA ) -- highlighted the difficult balancing act required of filmmakers (and many other artists) to practice ...
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