REVIEWSetc.

Let us be honest with you. We ended the last film of our third day at Cannes with Parallel Tales, and we are tired, and this film did not especially help. We say this not to be glib about a filmmaker of Farhadi's genuine stature, whose best work ranks among the finest cinema of the last twenty years. We say it because the gap between what this film is and what it could have been, with this cast, with this source material, in competition at this festival, is wide enough to be