An Endless Bitterness

Iran Theater- Houshang Golmakani ,a well-known critic watched “Zaahre Mari”( Poison) by Ali Ahmadi and wrote a short note about it as follows:

 

 

The precise and clever play, and its details in the performance - directing and scenery and mise-en-scène - and in particular the avoidance from common abstraction and fashionable theater in these years, accompanies the viewer.

The play rebuilds a situation that is in the sense of a small scale of society. Some are caught up in expedient and hypocrisy, a collective of contradictions and caught in complex and self-made contradictions. The text with the successful and popular model, known as Asghar Farhadi’s model in recent years, opens up the various layers of characters and relationships and takes the viewer into the depths of the story. Everything in this story is bitter , even its humor. And the end is open which means an endless bitterness. This is a familiar situation that we do not have the idea to rid our people of the sinkhole they are in. And this is all the more bitter.

 

Houshang Golmakani is an Iranian journalist, film critic and director. He was born in Gorgan on March 23, 1954. Houshang Golmakani started his professional career in 1972 as a journalist and film critic for Tehran Economist. He graduated in cinema and television from the College of Dramatic Arts of Tehran in 1982.

He is one of the three founders of Film (Iranian magazine), the oldest post-revolutionary film magazine in Iran (founded in 1982 with Massoud Mehrabi and Abbas Yari.