Round 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 who asks “how does one become a cow?” by saying “gradually.” 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 of (*) plagiarism, mostly about a film based on a real-life prisoner who returned a bag of money. This director of About Elly and A Hero won an Oscar in absentia 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, name this Iranian director of The Salesman and A Separation. ■END■

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