Directed by Mona Zandi Haghighi
Starring Fatemah Motamed-Aria, Saeed Aghakhani and Reza Babak
Running time: 1 hour and 33 minutes

by Deborah Krieger

In a mainstream American film, the premise of the aging ex-husband coming to live with his former wife and her new husband (who is also the ex-husband’s ex-best friend) would be played as broad comedy. There’s the manly resentful chest-beating leading to a detente where they get drunk together at a bar, there’s a scene where the ex-husband walks in on the couple in flagrante delicto—it’s easy to envision.