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Fireworks Wednesday

Chaharshanbe-soori

2006

Asghar Farhadi

Hediyeh Tehrani, Taraneh Alidoosti, Hamid Farokhnezhad, Pantea Bahram ...

7.0

478

Drama Hired as a maid for constantly feuding couple Morteza and Mojdeh, bride-to-be Rouhi is thrust headfirst into a whirlwind of middle-class commotion in rising star Asghar Farhadi’s perceptive and superblyacted drama of infidelity and social hierarchies. Disenchanted Mojdeh suspects her husband of having an affair with next door neighbor, beautician Simin. Modjeh soon entrusts the innocuous Rouhi to spy on Simin, and begins her own ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Deborah Young Variety	"Few Iranian films have tried to realistically depict both the urban middle and lower classes, and fewer still with the complexity of story telling and depth of characterization in Asghar Farhadi’s impressive third feature."	POS
United States	Stephen Holden The New York Times	"As with Mr. Farhadi’s other films, every detail of speech and body language resonates."	POS
United States	Godfrey Cheshire rogerebert.com	"Its distinctiveness and eloquence ultimately testify to the gifts of Farhadi, one of the contemporary cinema’s most essential masters (...) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	A.A. Dowd AV Club	"'Fireworks Wednesday' fascinates (...) [It] carefully, organically introduces its characters, then lets the audience try to discern what they’re withholding."	POS
United States	Clayton Dillard Slant	"[It] interrogates the tensions between tactility and vision in complex ways (...) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"	POS
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"[An] icily cool and controlled film about marriage that is filled with emotional explosions. (...) A formidable and technically accomplished drama from Farhadi. (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Kenneth Turan Los Angeles Times	"What pulls us into 'Fireworks Wednesday' is the universality of the emotions its characters display and the familiarity of the situations they find themselves in."	POS
United States	Michael Phillips Chicago Tribune	"Sharp, unpredictable Iranian drama (...) The acting is splendid."	POS
United States	Peter Keough Boston Globe	"Another complex and magnificently acted melodrama (...) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Chris Nashawaty Entertainment Weekly	"Farhadi’s intrigue doesn’t feel like the stuff of a Hollywood thriller. It’s more realistic, more pedestrian than that – which gives it a real ring of low-key emotional truth."	POS

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