With: Hadieh Tehrani (Mojdeh), Taraneh Alidoosti (Rouhi), Hamid Farrokhnezhad (Morteza), Pantea Bahram (Mrs Simi)
Director/Screenplay:  Asghar Farhadi
Producer: Seyed Jamal Sadatian
Production co: Boshra Film
Screenplay:  Asghar Farhadi, Mani Haghighi
Photography: Hossein Jafarian
Editor: Hayedeh Safyari
Music: Peyman Yazdanian
REVIEWS

​“The titular fireworks are literal – the story takes place as Iranians celebrate New Year by spring-cleaning and lighting firecrackers – and metaphorical: when Rouhi (Taraneh Alidoosti), a young bride-to-be working for a cleaning agency, turns up at the apartment of a couple about to go on holiday, she’s drawn into an explosive domestic conflict.  What distinguishes the film is the way Farhadi keeps us guessing as to what exactly is happening and why; repeatedly shifting our point of view, he forces us to question our assumptions about characters and their reliability.

This compelling, corrosive account of male-female relationships in today’s Tehran is tempered by genuine compassion for the individuals concerned; wisely, Farhadi never serves judgement on them in their troubled pursuit of truth, love and happiness.  Intelligent, illuminating and directed with unflashy expertise.”

— Geoff Andrew, Time Out
FILM SOCIETY SCREENINGS

Nelson
Thursday, 12 April, 6:00pm*

New Plymouth
Wednesday, 2 May, 6:00pm*

Whanganui
Monday, 14 May, 7:00pm

Auckland
Monday, 28 May, 6:30pm*

Dunedin
Wednesday, 30 May, 7:30pm

Canterbury
Monday, 25 June, 7:30pm

Palmerston North
Monday, 23 July, 6:00pm

Queenstown
Tuesday, 18 September, 8:15pm

Hamilton
Monday, 15 October, 8:00pm*

Tauranga
Wednesday, 17 October, 6:15pm

Wellington
Monday, 5 November, 6:15pm*

Waitati
Tuesday, 6 November, 8:00pm

*Denotes DCP screening
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