Menneisyys

Original title: Le passé

20132013
K-7K-7
2h 10min

An Iranian man deserts his French wife and her two children to return to his homeland. Meanwhile, his wife starts up a new relationship, a reality her husband confronts upon his wife's reque... Read allAn Iranian man deserts his French wife and her two children to return to his homeland. Meanwhile, his wife starts up a new relationship, a reality her husband confronts upon his wife's request for a divorce.An Iranian man deserts his French wife and her two children to return to his homeland. Meanwhile, his wife starts up a new relationship, a reality her husband confronts upon his wife's request for a divorce.

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Awards
- 15 wins & 41 nominations

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Bérénice Bejo and Ali Mosaffa in Le passé (2013)

Bérénice Bejo and Tahar Rahim in Le passé (2013)

Sabrina Ouazani and Tahar Rahim in Le passé (2013)

Coming back to accomplish the divorce procedure, Ahmad an Iranian man, arrives in Paris after four years to meet his ex-wife and her daughters from her previous marriage. He notices his ex is in a relationship with an Arab named Samir who also has a son and a wife in a coma. The relationship of the older daughter and her mother is in deterioration because the daughter thinks her mother is the cause of Samir's wife comatose state. The affairs get more complicated when the older daughter discloses something heinous she has done. —Hossein sr

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Trivia
Ali Mosaffa learned French two months before filming began with the help of his wife, Leila Hatami.

Goofs
At the train station, Fouad and Samir discuss the fact that Fouad's mother is on tubes for life support. Fouad says that she should be unplugged. In the final scene, she is not plugged to any life support what so ever.

Quotes
Samir: When two people see each other after 4 years and still fight together, it shows that there is something unsolved between them.

Connections
Featured in At the Movies: Cannes Film Festival 2013 (2013)

Soundtracks
Magie d'aéroports
by Michael Boumendil (as Michaël Boumendil), Stéphane Horeczko
© (p) Sixième Son
Avec l'aimable autorisation d'Aéroports de Paris et de Sixième Son

Top review

8/10

A blended family is rarely a long quiet river

Ahmad, an Iranian back in France to finalize a divorce procedure with Marie, is going to be the involuntarily detonator of a time bomb by unveiling all the not-said things in an uptight blended family created by Marie and Samir, in the suburbs of Paris. Although he is not perfect, Ahmad is fundamentally empathetic and gets the conversations flowing. Thus, during these few days, he will be like the missing piece of a complex puzzle, and thanks to (because of ?) him, secrets will be revealed. With this growing tension, we sense that this blended family will either come out grown up or either imploded.

I invite you very strongly to discover the end of this beautiful film. During two hours, you will bathe in a tub filled with delicacy, anger, benevolence, love, sadness, respect, betrayal, empathy, ... The whole cast is excellent. Ali Mosaffa, Tahar Rahim and Pauline Burlet are particularly tremendous. Moreover, the photography, the music, the script and the direction are sublime. As a synthesis: 8/9 of 10.

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