Length: 90 minutes
Category: Experimental, Feature
Country: Iran
Year of production: 1995
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Synopsis
A decade after the Islamic Revolution, an intellectual couple, prominent prior to the Revolution, now confined within their modest apartment, celebrate their twentieth anniversary. They can only invite one friend each. As the evening proceeds, relationships are developed and dreams resurface. This film takes us into the apartment of a middle aged couple. The man, bond to his wheelchair, is a painter. The woman, childless, is a teacher. It is their twentieth anniversary. Because of their financial condition they each can only invite one close friend to celebrate with. The woman’s friend is a divorced writer who had to choose between her husband and her writing. The man’s is a doctor whose wife left the country following the Iranian revolution. The two guests discontented with bitter experiences of the past failures, offer nothing but negative presumptions toward one another. Over the course of a night filled with poetry, food, tea and laughter, the hosts help their friends reconnect with their disappointments, reveal their fears, and discover new and common interests in one another. They agree that “life must go on” and it is important to stay hopeful and go forward, as “when a door closes, another opens.”
