Rahim (Amir Jadidi) is on two-day go away from debtors’ jail when his girlfriend, Farkhondeh (Sahir Goldoust), probabilities upon a pile of gold. Positive, it’s in a purse that doesn’t belong to her, however has been deserted at a bus cease, so she decides the cash are truthful sport. The pair plan to pawn them and repay a few of Rahim’s debt, however finally resolve to return the cash to its proprietor. But on this wry ethical drama from the Oscar-winning Iranian film-maker Asghar Farhadi (A Separation, The Salesman), no good deed goes unpunished.
Rahim’s easy act turns into the speak of the city; very similar to a tweet gone viral, it’s shortly taken out of context. Gossip spreads by the town of Shiraz, warping his story right into a feat of the Aristocracy and turning him into an inadvertent public determine. It’s a possibility the determined Rahim embraces all too readily, keen to enhance his status. Jadidi is sensible as a person whose hangdog expression miraculously melts away in entrance of the digital camera. The native TV information station laps it up.
“The place on this planet are individuals celebrated for not doing mistaken?” fumes Bahram (Mohsen Tanabandeh), Rahim’s antagonistic creditor. In the meantime, a charity organises a neighborhood fundraiser to assist the reformed convict. In his appeals to the general public, Rahim enlists his son, who has a extreme speech obstacle, as a form of sympathetic prop. Refreshingly, Farhadi is ambivalent in direction of his “hero”, and his management over the movie’s tone is masterful; what begins as humorous and virtually farcical, quickly shifts into one thing a lot sadder and extra sobering.
In cinemas now and on Amazon Prime Video from 21 January
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