It's a week today that I jet off for the exotic climes of... Central London. One of the most high profile films screening at the BFI London Film Festival, and among the 18 which I'll be seeing, is Asghar Farhadi's The Past. Farhadi built up acclaim through the last decade as writer and director, which led to a Berlin Film Festival Silver Bear for A Separation, which also won an Oscar. The Past premiered earlier this year, in May at the Cannes Film Festival, where its lead actress Berenice Bejo beat stiff competition from the likes of Adele Exarchopoulos and Lea Seydoux, Marion Cotillard and Emmanuelle Seigner to win the Best Actress award, and the film also won the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury. Strong reviews from the festival have continued through the summer as the film has appeared at other fests including Telluride and Toronto, and it's currently undergoing a worldwide rollout, with a US release scheduled for the 20th of December, with awards potential obviously front and centre in American distributor Sony Pictures Classics' mind for the film which has officially been submitted as Iran's Best Foreign Language Film choice. Bejo plays a woman who begins a relationship as her Iranian husband abandons her in France to return to his homeland.
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