Isabelle Huppert, Virginie Efira, Vincent Cassel, Pierre Niney and Adam Bessa are the French stars of Asghar Farhadi’s new film, Parallel Tales, scheduled to shoot in Paris in the autumn. The Iranian director’s tenth feature-length film is produced by Alexandre Mallet-Guy for Memento Production (his fifth collaboration with Farhadi) in co-production with Andrea Occhipinti for Lucky Red (Italy), David Levine for Anonymous Content (USA), and André Logie for Panache Productions and Gaëtan David for La Compagnie Cinématographique (both Belgium).
Parallel Tales is Farhadi’s second French-language film after The Past, which won Berenice Bejo the Best Actress Award at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival. The film, whose plot details have not yet been revealed and which will be represented by Charades and UTA Independent Film Group at the upcoming Marché du Film in May, comes four years after the director’s last work, A Hero (2021), won the Grand Prix at the 74th Cannes Film Festival.
In addition to The Past and A Hero, Mallet-Guy and Memento Production also produced Farhadi’s The Salesman (2016), winner of Best Screenplay (Farhadi) and Best Actor (Shahab Hosseini) at the 69th Cannes Film Festival; and Everybody Knows (2018), Farhadi’s Spanish-language debut starring Penélope Cruz and Javier Bardem, presented in competition at the 71st Cannes Film Festival.
Asghar Farhadi received an Academy Award nomination in 2012 for the screenplay of A Separation, a title that won the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film. In 2017, The Salesman won the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film.