A stunning portrait of collapsed relationships and changing perspective.

In what is becoming one of the most welcome trends in modern film distribution, another piece of Iranian master Asghar Farhadi’s backlog finally reaches the theaters of America. Fireworks Wednesday (originally released in 2006) follows in the footsteps of last year’s About Elly (2009) as vital context for his later, more famed efforts: 2011’s masterpiece A Separation and 2013’s nearly-as-triumphant The Past. Fireworks lacks the precise execution and emotional heft of Elly, but definitively proves that Farhadi’s talents have been nestled deeply within his work for at least a decade: http://www.cutprintfilm.com/reviews/fireworks-wednesday/