Parallel Tales

Development

In April 2025, it was announced Farhadi would direct his 10th feature film, and his second French language production in Paris in the fall, starring Isabelle Huppert, Virginie Efira, Vincent Cassel, Pierre Niney, Adam Bessa, and Catherine Deneuve joining the cast.

Cassel revealed in an interview with the newspaper La Tribune, that the film would follow the aftermath of the November 2015 Paris attacks. In early 2026, Polish executive producer Maciej Musiał confirmed that the film will be loosely based on Krzysztof Kieślowski's Dekalog: Six, while adaptations for the series other nine episodes were in different stages of production. In April, alongside the trailer, the film's official poster confirmed the adaptation.

A co-production involving France, the United States, Belgium and Italy. Co-produced by the French company Memento Films Production and the US-based Anonymous Content. It was also financed by the French Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (CNC).

Filming

Principal photography began on 8 September 2025, shooting on location in Paris, and wrapped by early December. Guillaume Deffontaines was the director of photography. Farhadi recurrent collaborator Iranian editor Hayedeh Safiyari will handle the editing.

Box office

It grossed $1.6 million at the French box office, including a $1 million opening week between 13-17 May 2026.

Critical response

On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 19% of 31 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 4.5/10. Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 41 out of 100, based on 17 critics, indicating "mixed or average" reviews.

In a 0.5/4 rating, Éric Neuhoff of Le Figaro declared Parallel Tales "boring and conventional", looking like a French film.