80
Variety by Deborah Young
Dispensing with heavyhanded symbolism, Farhadi tells the tale engrossingly and with a lot of physicality through the two main actors.
Dancing in the Dust (رقص در غبار)
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- Iran
- 2003
- · 95m
Director
Asghar Farhadi
Cast
Faramarz Gharibian,
Yousef Khodaparast,
Baran Kosari,
Jalal Sarhad Seraj
Genre
Drama
Pressured by his family into divorcing his new wife, Nazar insists on paying back his bride’s marriage dowry. After falling behind on payments, he flees the creditors and hides out in the desert with an old snake hunter. Nazar insists on working with the hunter until he earns enough money to settle his debts.
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What are critics saying?
70
Film Threat by Alan Ng
It’s missing a nice, tidy resolution that would greenlight this in Hollywood. I’ll say there’s a sweetness and sadness to the film’s final moments.
70
The New York Times by Ben Kenigsberg
Dancing in the Dust shows Farhadi’s early confidence with using framing and cutting to create tension and parallels — skills that would serve him later.
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