Sara and Ayda (2017)

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Ayda and Sara are close friends that through events in the story face many serious challenges.

One of them comes across a man who is a charlatan that abuses his power to make money and it seems to us that she has no knowledge of it and the other one has exactly the opposite than her situation.

And we meet the Sara’s old mother, a retired teacher who is regretful for her whole life : “ I helped to raise kids of others with good manners, but I failed when it came to my own son” and therefore the miserable mother has to pay the price of his son’s scams and Sara falls deep into a dark trap when trying to help her mother that getting out of it is impossible.

The amazing performance of Ghazal Shakeri as Sara and her silken voice, singing in her loneliness for the lose of her dearest friend with a song, her back to the camera ……makes you sad, and I better stop mentioning other performances in the film as they are not comparable.

Pegah Ahangani’s acting and specially her way of delivering dialogues always disturbs me. I can’t remember a good performance by her and again it could be more about her vocal performance.

The story of the film is quite solid and different elements fall in place like a good puzzle .

Most of the film locations and camera angles together convey the feeling that all the event of the film is happening above the city level and dominate the city.

In a good social drama you don’t notice the presence of the camera, make up, custom design and set design… if you feel them then they have spoiled their story, and I can say Sara & Ayda is a good social drama.

The masterful cinematography of Hossein Jafarian has his signature in every single shot.

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