Parallel Tales

Plot

In search of inspiration for her new novel, Sylvie spies on her neighbors in the building across the street using a telescope. When she hires young Adam to help her with her daily routine, she has no idea that he will turn her life and her work upside down, until the fiction she had imagined surpasses the reality of them all.

About Parallel Tales

Parallel Tales (French: Histoires parallèles) is a 2026 French-language drama film produced and directed by Asghar Farhadi, co-written with Saeed Farhadi, and loosely based on Krzysztof Kieślowski's Dekalog: Six. Starring an ensemble cast that includes Isabelle Huppert, Virginie Efira, Vincent Cassel, Pierre Niney and Adam Bessa, it follows Sylvie (Huppert), a famous author seeking inspiration by observing neighbors across the street, who hires the mysterious Adam (Bessa) as assistant who ends up impacting those neighbors. The film had its world premiere in the main competition of the 2026 Cannes Film Festival on 14 May, and was theatrically released in France on the same day by Memento Films. It received mostly negative reviews from critics.

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