Opening today at the Film Forum in New York, “Fireworks Wednesday” is now the fourth film I have seen by Asghar Farhadi, an Iranian director I hold in the highest esteem. Unlike the persecuted Jafar Panahi whose works take up broad social and political questions, Farhadi’s films are domestic dramas having much in common with the Turkish director Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s work. What Farhadi and Ceylan share is the ability to communicate the psychic ills of their respective countries through the microcosm of stories that confirm the observation made in the first sentence of Tolstoy’s “Anna Karenina”: “Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
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