A Separation

4.00
    A Separation
    2011

    Synopsis

    A married couple are faced with a difficult decision - to improve the life of their child by moving to another country or to stay in Iran and look after a deteriorating parent who has Alzheimer's disease.

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    Cast

    • Payman MaadiNader
    • Sare BayatRazieh
    • Leila HatamiSimin
    • Sarina FarhadiTermeh
    • Shahab HosseiniHojjat
    • Kimia HosseiniSomayyeh
    • Ali-Asghar ShahbaziNader's Father
    • Babak KarimiInterrogator
    • Merila ZareiMiss Ghahraii
    • Shirin YazdanbakhshSimin's Mother

    Recommendations

    • 100

      Time Out

      The drama it might remind you most of, oddly enough, is "Six Degrees of Separation," also about the snowballing connections between unlikely people. And as in that urban clash, the bedrock of it all is social responsibility, ever crumbling and rebuilding. A total triumph.
    • 100

      IndieWire

      It's a frantic microcosm of life itself.
    • 100

      The A.V. Club

      Beyond the impeccable performances and direction, it's foremost an exceptional piece of screenwriting, so finely wrought that the drama seems guided by an invisible hand.
    • 100

      USA Today

      Sophisticated and universal yet deeply intimate, A Separation is an exquisitely conceived family drama that has the coiled power of a top-notch thriller.
    • 100

      Wall Street Journal

      The members of the cast represent ensemble, naturalistic acting at its finest.
    • 88

      Slant Magazine

      Barriers both transparent and persistently present encase the characters of A Separation, constricting them in ways social, cultural, religious, familial, and emotional.
    • 88

      Rolling Stone

      A Separation is a landmark film. No way will you be able to get it out of your head.
    • 80

      Village Voice

      What's fascinating is how the various issues - religious or practical - are played out in these two quite different families, yet always come down to irreconcilable differences between rebellious women and their stiff-necked, controlling men.

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