And although Farhadi has peppered the proceedings with a handful of striking sequences - eg Emad confronts the man responsible for a transgression against his wife - The Salesman's pervasively erratic, meandering diminishes the potential impact of its third - act
revelations and, in the end, confirms the movie's place as just another potentially intriguing
premise squandered by Farhadi's less -
than - focused modus operandi.