Asghar Farhadi returns to Iran for a typically stoic moral drama centring on fraught entanglements of finance and family – and a media desperate for feelgood stories.

Engaging, provocative art that challenges its audiences.

The film is a sprawling drama about life in modern Iran. It is not always easy to interpret and the action might be considered slow, but the rewards are great.

Farhadi illustrates, with a certain sobriety, a discourse on the ethical and moral dilemmas of honesty, in an Iranian society conditioned by the injustices of the penal system and the prejudices of social media. [Full review in Spanish]