Parallel Tales review Isabelle Huppert pens furtive sexual fantasy for Vincent Cassel in Asghar Farhadi's latest
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Parallel Tales review  Isabelle Huppert pens furtive sexual fantasy for Vincent Cassel in Asghar Farhadi's latest
"Fascinated by the intimacy of Nicolas, Theo and Nita and apparently grasping immediately what they're doing for a living, not easy, surely, for a luddite typewriter-user Sylvie has dreamed up for them a steamy t"
A French-language meta-drama returns to Paris with a writer living alone in chaotic squalor, typing novels no one wants to read. Her latest work is inspired by watching people in the apartment opposite through a telescope. Nicolas runs a sound effects production facility with Nita and Theo, who fabricate lo-fi noises while the film plays silently in front of them. Sylvie also builds an autobiographical story in which her father used the same telescope to spy on her mother’s lover next door. The narrative connects voyeurism to creativity and betrayal, while the plot becomes intricate and elaborate yet somewhat unclear.
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