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From the two-time Academy Award winning director of The Salesman and A Separation, Asghar Farhadi's Fireworks Wednesday is a gripping, suspenseful drama – a story of marital intrigue and betrayal set against the backdrop of the Persian New Year. Rouhi, a young bride-to-be, is hired as a maid for an affluent family in Tehran. Upon arriving, she is suddenly thrust into an explosive domestic conflict. The wife is convinced her husband is having an affair (with a recently divorced woman living next door) and enlists Rouhi as a spy, to follow her husband, and confirm her suspicions. What Rouhi discovers, however, threatens not only their marriage but her own future.
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"Terrific. One of the contemporary cinema's most essential masters."
Godfrey Cheshire
"A masterpiece of Farhadi's psychologically charged scene-making and sensuous, insinuating style."
Film Comment
"Exquisite. A finely tuned, masterful work."
Film Journal
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