The Past
Production
Budget
$11 000 000
Box office
$10 631 747
Director
Actors
Bérénice Bejo, Ali Mosaffa, Tahar Rahim, Pauline Burlet, Elyes Aguis, Jeanne Jestin, Sabrina Ouazani, Babak Karimi, Valéria Cavalli, Aleksandra Klebanska
All actors and roles (10)
All actors and roles (10)
Scenario
Producer
Alexandre Mallet-Guy, Alexa Rivero
Camera operator
Mahmoud Kalari
Composer
Artist
Claude Lenoir
Audition
Editing
Short description
After four years apart, Ahmad returns to his wife Marie in Paris in order to progress their divorce. During his brief stay, he cannot help noticing the strained relationship between Marie and her daughter Lucie. As he attempts to improve matters between mother and daughter Ahmad unwittingly lifts the lid on a long buried secret...
What's left behind the scenes
- Ali Mosaffa learned French two months before filming began with the help of his wife, Leila Hatami.
- Screenwriter and director Asghar Farhadi wrote the screenplay in Persian, after which he lived in France for two years to better grasp the rhythm of the French language. He needed this to better assess the accuracy of the screenplay's translation into French and to be able to judge the actors' performances.
- Asghar Farhadi does not speak French, so he used the services of an interpreter on set.
- During the screen tests, director Asghar Farhadi instructed that Bérénice Bejo be made up and have cotton placed in her cheeks. He felt that without it, the actress's face did not look round enough.
- Asghar Farhadi cast Pauline Burlet as Lucy because of her resemblance to Marion Cotillard, who was initially cast as Lucy's mother. However, Cotillard had to leave the cast because Farhadi insisted on rehearsals, which she could not attend due to commitments to other projects.
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