In Iranian filmmaker Asghar Farhadi's
films, reasonably straightforward set-ups — a divorce, a missing woman, a newly
lent apartment — unspool such complex, cascading developments that it comes as
no surprise that a found handbag stuffed with gold coins leads to countless
fluctuations of fortune and anguish in his latest, "A Hero."
Good Deeds Go Punished In Farhadi's 'A Hero'

