Family scenes Ruhi's girlfriend is getting married. She works as an apartment cleaner. One day, the agency is looking for a customer. She comes into the apartment and starts cleaning. However, he immediately notices something wrong. The hostess looks very irritable and tired. Gradually, having witnessed a number of family scenes, she understands the cause of her condition. The fact is that this woman suspects her husband of treason with a neighbor who lives in an apartment nearby and keeps a beauty salon. Ruhi, silently cleaning the apartment, remains in general an outsider to what is happening and moreover is in the epicenter of events. And she manages to find out whether the husband is lying to the hostess when he says that he is not cheating on her, or telling the truth.
Farhadi’s work is strictly limited to family issues. Man and woman appear to him as two fundamentally different universes, struggling endlessly. No one is guilty and no one is right, everyone has their own truth. But, of course, the universalism of Farhadi's stories also has limits. They may not be so much universal as typical. Fireworks can happen in any family. At the same time, the director does not enter into a special analysis of family relations. It is too late to analyze anything, the situation has long been in the stage of shouting and settling scores. The owner of the apartment, deeply humiliated by suspicion alone, tries to cling to something to believe in the loyalty of her husband. And the husband does nothing but assure her of loyalty (which, however, does not prevent him from publicly beating her when he notices her surveillance). In general, all this is not similar to heart-to-heart conversation.
The everyday realities of Iran, which can be observed in this film, almost do not differ from European ones. Unless women walk around with their heads covered. Otherwise, this is a world of the same human passions, where treason is severely condemned, and a young bride, due to her obviously not better financial situation, can work as a cleaner for those who are slightly more wealthy. If you set a goal to look for metaphors, then it can be just a firework - a light that burns for a short time, quickly releasing sparks and immediately fading. The hostess and her husband have already burned out, their marriage is almost exhausted, but the young Ruhi is still ahead. But isn’t she waiting for the same thing?
8 out of 10