Farhadi Recasts Kieslowski’s Love Tale as a Meandering Cannes Meta‑Film

At Cannes, Asghar Farhadi’s Parallel Tales, a loose adaptation of Kieslowski’s A Short Film About Love, mutates a compact moral fable into a sprawling, self‑referential drama that leans on voyeurism and fragile storytelling; despite moments of strong sound design and Isabelle Huppert’s presence, the film mostly stumbles through torpid scenes and flimsy mechanisms, earning a lukewarm grade of C‑ and currently seeking U.S. distribution.