The great Iranian director Asghar Farhadi is back in Cannes competition for the 5th time with his first film in five years and arguably one that ranks with his very best. That is a high bar since two of his movies, 2011’s A Separation and 2016’s The Salesman both went on to win the Best Foreign Language (now International) Film Academy Award. His most recent film, A Hero took the Grand Prix in Cannes in 2021. Returning with the gripping cleverly reimagined Parallel Tales and working again outside his native country, he has come up with a French movie that is wickedly entertaining, a twisty and smart tale “freely” inspired by director Krzyszof Kieslowski’s legendary ten hour television series, Dekalog . Not wanting to do the entire ten episodes, all based on the Ten Commandments, he chose Episode Six (later expanded to A Short Film About Love ) to inspire a full length feature film for which he took its basic idea of a lovestruck man spying on the neighboring woman in an apartment across the street.…