PentHouse Films

A Separation is an Iranian film that is surprising the world and snatching awards in several countries.

The script of the film is simply sensational. There are even guilty and innocent. Everyone suffers and no one knows their percentage of fault in the crisis in which the families live. All the characters live a moral conflict with the situation, either by having left home, for having pushed the employee, having been careless to leave the house or for lying to authorities. All this thinking is revealed can be analyzed through ethical and religious principles.

A Separation is one of the most beautiful films that the past year has given us. In it we follow the story of an Iranian middle-class couple, Nader and Simin, willing to emigrate to the daughter Termeh can grow in an environment with more opportunities. The problem is that when the occasion arises, because Nader recoils not want to leave behind his father, a victim of Alzheimer's and more frail with each passing day, leading to the fury of Simin which ultimately filed for divorce. This leaves home, far from imagining the chain of tragic events caused by their action and that eventually dominate the plot.

As the situation vai sharpening and new data will be released, which will confuse us about who speaks truth and who is lying, also witnessed the unsuccessful attempts to join Termeh parents again. For his dialogues with his father, who chooses to stay at the beginning of the movie instead of following the mother to his grandparents' house, we realized that this separation was only motivated by sheer stubbornness.

Awards:

Already awarded in numerous festivals, received the Golden Bear for Best Film at the Berlin Film Festival, where he also went out of winning interpretations of Peyman Moaadi, Leila Hatami, Sareh Bayat and Shahab Hosseini. Termeh was magnificently played by the director's daughter, Sarina Farhadi. The characterization of actors is very strong, supported by an argument also written by Asghar Farhadi.

Personal comment:

Is this young film, of a more social than political, which follows the great names of Kiarostami and Panahi. With his fifth film already, Farhadi has just joined the family and the scenes inside cars are certainly a tribute to his older compatriot.