The Past (2013)

Ali Mosaffa: Ahmad

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Quotes 

• Ahmad : Eat it now. You'll never get a chance to eat Gorme Sabzi

  [an Iranian food] 

  Ahmad : in future. Unless you'll marry to a fun Iranian husband and you Fouad, an Iranian wife.

  Fouad : What does an Iranian woman look like?

  Ahmad : Like me!

  [Ahmad moves his hands like a woman! They laugh] 

• Ahmad : [in Farsi]  Bah Bah, che balaly. (Wow, what a sweetcorn).

• Marie Brisson : Why didn't Shahryar tell me that Lucie was there?

  Ahmad : He couldn't tell you.

  Marie Brisson : Why he couldn't? He saw that I was dying from concern.

  Ahmad : He promised to her.

• Ahmad : When did you meet each other?

  Marie Brisson : In drugstore. He came to get his wife's medicines.

  [Ahmad sneers] 

  Marie Brisson : What?

  Ahmad : In our culture is laughing.

  Marie Brisson : But in our culture is mocking!

  [They discuss with each other] 

  Marie Brisson : Just your hair became white!