Fireworks Wednesday

Fireworks Wednesday (Chaharshanbe-soori), 2006

Iran | Betacam, Color, 102’ | Persian
Director: Asghar Farhadi

In his third film, Academy Award winner Farhadi shows a day in the life of a young cleaning woman who works in the home of an upper-middle class married couple. The film builds its conflict around class and social tensions in present-day Iran, with an atmosphere of unease created by the firecrackers, explosion, and bonfires set off for the New Year celebrations which serve as a dramatic counterpoint to the theme of the female condition in Iran. Like all Farhadi films, though he examines Iranian society on a micro level through the representations upon which he concentrates, in the end, Farhadi succeeds in drawing the most general conclusions about the human condition.