The Past has an IQ Score of 164/200 on TV Intelligentsia's Intelligence Quotient rubric, placing it in the Masterclass tier.
Measurably increases domain knowledge or cognitive capacity

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IQ = round((Cognitive × 0.4 + Educational × 0.35 + Craft × 0.25) × 4)
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The TVI Take
Asghar Farhadi's 2013 French-language film about an Iranian man returning to Paris to finalize his divorce from his French wife. The structural commitment to letting the protagonist's confrontation with what his absence cost his stepchildren be the actual subject is canonical Farhadi work in non-Persian-language register.
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