Packet 2: Tossup 18

A L’Avventura-esque film by this director centers on whether a teacher drowned herself on vacation. This director depicted students watching the first film of his country’s New Wave in a scene in which a teacher responds to a student (-5[1])who asks (15[1])“how does one become a cow?” by saying (-5[1])“gradually.” (-5[1])In another film, this director cuts from a family staring at their off-screen car to a shot of them driving it, revealing a debt-ridden man has smashed its windshield. In 2022, The New Yorker interviewed this director’s former students and colleagues regarding accusations (-5[1])of (*) plagiarism, (10[1])mostly about a film (10[1])based on a real-life (10[1])prisoner (10[1])who returned a bag of money. This director of (-5[1])About Elly (-5[1])and A Hero won an Oscar in absentia (10[2])for a 2016 film about a couple who play Linda and Willy Loman on stage. This director cast his daughter in a film that introduces Simin and Nader at their divorce hearing. For 10 points, (-5[1])name this Iranian director (10[1])of The Salesman and A Separation. ■END■ (10[4]0[1])

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