Review: “The Salesman,” “Toni Erdmann” are foreign film Oscar nominees that live up to the hype
A cracking apartment window is the first of many fractures to follow in The Salesman, the latest drama from Oscar-winning Iranian master Asghar Farhadi (A Separation, Fireworks Wednesday). Nominated this year for the Best Foreign Language Film Academy Award, it’s a portrait of a marriage — or, actually, of several. One of them is fictional…
