The Past (2013 film)

The Past
Theatrical release poster
Directed byAsghar Farhadi
Written byAsghar Farhadi
Produced byAlexandre Mallet-Guy
StarringBérénice Bejo
Tahar Rahim
Ali Mosaffa
CinematographyMahmoud Kalari
Edited byJuliette Welfling
Music byYouli Galperine
Evgueni Galperine
Production
companies
Memento Films Production
France 3 Cinéma
BIM Distribuzione
Canal+
Ciné+
France Télévisions
Distributed byMemento Films (France)
BIM Distribuzione (Italy)
Filmiran (Iran)
Release dates
  • 17 May 2013 (2013-05-17) (Cannes)
  • 19 June 2013 (2013-06-19) (Iran)
  • 21 November 2013 (2013-11-21) (Italy)
Running time
130 minutes[1]
CountriesFrance
Italy
Iran
LanguagesFrench
Persian
Italian
Budget$8 million
Box office$10.6 million[2][3]

The Past (French: Le Passé, Persian: گذشته Gozašte) is a 2013 French–Italian–Iranian drama film, written and directed by Iranian director Asghar Farhadi and starring Bérénice Bejo, Tahar Rahim and Ali Mosaffa.[4]

The film was nominated for the Palme d'Or award at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival[5][6] and won the festival's Prize of the Ecumenical Jury.[7] Bejo also won the festival's Best Actress Award.[8][9] It was shown at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival.[10]

The film was selected as the Iranian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 86th Academy Awards,[citation needed] but it was not nominated. The film was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the 71st Golden Globe Awards.[11]

  1. ^ "The Past (12A)". Artificial Eye. British Board of Film Classification. 20 January 2014. Retrieved 29 April 2014.
  2. ^ "Le Passé (The Past)". JPBox-Office.
  3. ^ The Past at Box Office Mojo
  4. ^ Lavallee, Eric (11 January 2013). "Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2013: #77. Asghar Farhadi's The Past". ioncinema.com. Retrieved 1 May 2014.
  5. ^ "2013 Official Selection". Cannes Film Festival. 18 April 2013. Retrieved 18 April 2013.
  6. ^ "Screenings Guide" (PDF format). Cannes Film Festival. Retrieved 11 May 2013.
  7. ^ "Cannes: 'Blue Is the Warmest Color' Wins Fipresci Prize". Variety. 26 May 2013. Retrieved 26 May 2013.
  8. ^ "Cannes Film Festival: Awards 2013". Cannes Film Festival. 26 May 2013. Retrieved 26 May 2013.
  9. ^ Chang, Justin (26 May 2013). "Cannes: 'Blue Is the Warmest Color' Wins Palme d' Or". Variety. Retrieved 26 May 2013.
  10. ^ "Toronto film festival 2013: the full line-up". The Guardian. 23 July 2013. Retrieved 24 July 2013.
  11. ^ Cite error: The named reference GGnom was invoked but never defined (see the help page).