Asghar Farhadi's "Parallel Tales" explores fiction and reality through voyeurism

Director Asghar Farhadi's "Parallel Tales" stars Isabelle Huppert as a French novelist who spies on a sound-effects studio across the street in Paris. The film, loosely based on Kieślowski's "Dekalog: Six," centers on a love triangle involving studio workers Anna, Vincent Cassel's character, and Pierre Niney. Critics say Farhadi's meditation on fiction and reality becomes a muddled, meandering.

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