2019 Film Festival
film synopsis
Following the acclaimed, Oscar®-winning The Salesman, world-renowned Iranian filmmaker Asghar Farhadi travels to Spain in the heralded Cannes scorcher Everybody Knows. The master of cinema expands upon his gift for constructing rich characters with elaborate histories as he follows the return of Laura (Penélope Cruz) to her quaint Spanish hometown for a family wedding with her two children in tow. While the village is consumed with the festivities, wine is poured and the music plays ever louder, a sinister plan unfolds that ends in the drugging and kidnapping of Laura’s daughter. Led by Laura’s former boyfriend Paco (Javier Bardem), the effort to find the missing teen engulfs the entire town and family in a paranoid hysteria filled with shocking revelations. The conflicted Laura and Paco must confront their own relationship as jealousy and deeply rooted grudges threaten to derail the entire search in Farhadi’s newest entry to a legendary oeuvre.