Ashgar Farhadi’s stellar, Oscar-winning look at the result when a teacher/actor’s actress wife is assaulted in their new home Emad and Rana are both in a production of Miller’s “Death of a Salesman” (he plays Willy) and this evokes parallels with the changes in humanist Emad’s view of his life and the world around him. The film charts their divergent transitions as issues of culture and gender shape their responses to this terrible violence. It is at once comment and critique but it also is eminently personal. As with his earlier Oscar-winner, “A Separation,” this film shows the personal, political, and cultural intertwined in powerful ways. Farhadi did not attend the Oscars as a protest to Trumpite bigotry and American exclusionism. Be sure to watch the exceptional short film on the DVD that discusses the making of the movie and the connection between theater and film. Interestingly, no one objected to the theatricality of this film, unlike “Fences”. I loved them both