After a festival tour back in 2006 and a now-out-of-print DVD release, Asghar Farhadi’s Fireworks Wednesday has been theatrically re-released by the newly established Grasshopper Films. The drama is another precisely calibrated, culturally specific demonstration of Farhadi’s skills in constructing empathy machines. Further in line with the director’s filmography, this story has a nesting-doll structure that combines ingrained social hierarchies, domestic drama, and a tragic intersection of misunderstandings. And while it doesn’t feel as revelatory as the other recent Farhadi re-release, the claustrophobic, L’Avventura-esque About Elly, it’s more than merely an artifact from one of our best contemporary directors. If anything, it’s a testament to the fastidious construction of latter-day work such as A Separation and The Past.
Fireworks Wednesday resembles much of Farhadi’s work in how it shifts on the repercussions of an inciting incident. The event, this time, is less literal...
Fireworks Wednesday resembles much of Farhadi’s work in how it shifts on the repercussions of an inciting incident. The event, this time, is less literal...
- 3/21/2016
- by Michael Snydel
- The Film Stage
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