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A Separation
A Separation

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Leila Hatami, Peyman Moadi
Dec 30, 2011
PG-13, 2 hr. 3 min.

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Cast: Leila Hatami, Peyman Moadi, Shahab Hosseini, Sareh Bayat, Sarina Farhadi, Babak Karimi, Ali-Asghar Shahbazi, Shirin Yazdanbakhsh, Kimia Hosseini, Merila Zarei
Director: Asghar Farhadi
Rated: PG-13
Running Time: 2 hr. 3 min.
Genre: Art House & International, Drama
Theater Release: Dec 30, 2011
Synopsis: Set in contemporary Iran, A Separation is a compelling drama about the dissolution of a marriage. Simin wants to leave Iran with her husband Nader and daughter Termeh. Simin sues for divorce when Nader refuses to leave behind his Alzheimer-suffering father. Her request having failed, Simin returns to her parents' home, but Termeh decides to stay with Nader. When Nader hires a young woman to assist with his father in his wife's absence, he hopes that his life will return to a normal state. However, when he discovers that the new maid has been lying to him, he realizes that there is more on the line than just his marriage. -- (C) Sony Pictures Classics

Critic Reviews

  • Jon Frosch, The Atlantic
    Dynamically shot and paced like a thriller, the film has the density and moral prickliness of a good novel.
  • Tom Long, Detroit News
    These people seem so real they might live next door. And they probably do.
  • Lisa Kennedy, Denver Post
    Very few movies capture as convincingly as A Separation does the ways in which seemingly honorable decisions can lead to interpersonal conflict -- even disaster.
  • Chris Vognar, Dallas Morning News
    To say the piercing Iranian film A Separation is about divorce is a bit like saying The Wizard of Oz is about a pair of slippers.
  • Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune
    "A Separation" moves beyond one couple's sundering marriage to reveal growing rifts between generations, ideologies, religious mind-sets, genders and classes in contemporary Iran.
  • Bill Goodykoontz, Arizona Republic
    "A Separation" is a great movie, a look inside a world so foreign that it might as well be another planet, yet so universal that its observations are painfully familiar to anyone, anywhere.
  • John Anderson, Newsday
    Asghar Farhadi's emotionally epic movie is not just a masterpiece dramatically, it is a movie dramatically of its moment.
  • Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer
    It's small. It's real. And it's deeply moving.
  • Wesley Morris, Boston Globe
    This is a trenchant emotional thriller that you watch in dread, awe, and amazing aggravation.
  • Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune
    Some films wear their artistry so lightly they appear simply to be happening, the inner workings of the story guided by an unseen hand.
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