The darling of Iranian cinema. Being not only the country’s highest earner at the box office but also the first-ever to win a Golden Globe, an Academy Award, and the Golden Bear at the 61st Berlinale. The colossal success of this drama made Asghar Farhadi a household name both domestically and overseas, granting him a seat in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. ‘A Separation’ is another fine example of Farhadi’s expertise in crafting stories that examine family conflict and turmoil.
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Legal documents fill out the opening shot, bringing with it an air of apathy, foreshadowing the combustible relationship between Nader (Payman Maadi) and his wife Simin (Leila Hatami). The camera then pans to a Pov of a magistrate in the crossfire of a verbal spat between the couple, each person one-upping the other in a tense he-says-she-says over their impending divorce.
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Legal documents fill out the opening shot, bringing with it an air of apathy, foreshadowing the combustible relationship between Nader (Payman Maadi) and his wife Simin (Leila Hatami). The camera then pans to a Pov of a magistrate in the crossfire of a verbal spat between the couple, each person one-upping the other in a tense he-says-she-says over their impending divorce.
- 6/27/2022
- by Leon Overee
- AsianMoviePulse
Chicago – Patrick McDonald of HollywoodChicago.com appears on “The Morning Mess” with Scott Thompson on Wbgr-fm on January 6th, 2022, reviewing a new film from Iranian director Asghar Farhadi “A Hero,” in theaters on January 7th and Amazon Prime Video on January 21st.
Rating: 3.0/5.0
Iranian writer/director Asghar Farhadi (“A Separation” and “The Salesman”) creates empathetic insight into life in Iran. “A Hero” furthers this empathy as a man named Rahim (Amir Jadidi), who is on a sabbatical from debtors prison, gets involved in a found purse with gold coins in it. At first he wants cash for the bounty, but becomes guilty and posts signs around the neighborhood, and a grateful woman claims it. Word gets out, and Rahim is touted as a hero, but the circumstances of the find and the disappearance of the purse’s claimant cause problems with his heroism.
“A Hero” is currently in theaters beginning January 7th,...
Rating: 3.0/5.0
Iranian writer/director Asghar Farhadi (“A Separation” and “The Salesman”) creates empathetic insight into life in Iran. “A Hero” furthers this empathy as a man named Rahim (Amir Jadidi), who is on a sabbatical from debtors prison, gets involved in a found purse with gold coins in it. At first he wants cash for the bounty, but becomes guilty and posts signs around the neighborhood, and a grateful woman claims it. Word gets out, and Rahim is touted as a hero, but the circumstances of the find and the disappearance of the purse’s claimant cause problems with his heroism.
“A Hero” is currently in theaters beginning January 7th,...
- 1/9/2022
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
In movies like “A Separation,” “The Past,” and “The Salesman,” the Iranian writer-director Asghar Farhadi has demonstrated a unique ability to take “ordinary” human situations, usually on the domestic front, and play them out in a way that is so minutely authentic yet suspenseful that they give you the sensation that life itself, if observed closely enough, is a kind of thriller. “A Hero,” Farhadi’s latest film (it’s his fourth to premiere at Cannes), very much wants to be a drama of that ilk. Its story of an achingly modest and desperate man who becomes, all too fleetingly, a much discussed figure on television and social media is a story that one could easily imagine being set within the bubbling maelstrom of our own frenetic image culture.
Rahim, the central character, is serving time for an unpaid debt and has been given a two-day leave from prison, during...
Rahim, the central character, is serving time for an unpaid debt and has been given a two-day leave from prison, during...
- 7/13/2021
- by Owen Gleiberman
- Variety Film + TV
30. The Lovers on the Bridge (1991)
Directed by: Leos Carax
A romance the way only Leos Caraz could do it. “The Lovers on the Bridge” is a love story between an alcoholic, drug-addicted street performer named Alex (Denis Lavant) and a vagrant painter named Michele (Juliette Binoche) who lives on the streets after a previous relationship ended. She now suffers from an unkown disease that is slowly making her blind. The two live on the Pont Neuf, the oldest bridge in Paris, closed for repairs for the duration of the film. As Michele loses more and more of her sight, she has to depend on Alex to get her through the days. After a treatment is discovered, Michele’s parents try to find her using posters on the street and radio announcements. Alex, realizing that her health would remover her dependence upon him, does everything in his power to keep Michele...
Directed by: Leos Carax
A romance the way only Leos Caraz could do it. “The Lovers on the Bridge” is a love story between an alcoholic, drug-addicted street performer named Alex (Denis Lavant) and a vagrant painter named Michele (Juliette Binoche) who lives on the streets after a previous relationship ended. She now suffers from an unkown disease that is slowly making her blind. The two live on the Pont Neuf, the oldest bridge in Paris, closed for repairs for the duration of the film. As Michele loses more and more of her sight, she has to depend on Alex to get her through the days. After a treatment is discovered, Michele’s parents try to find her using posters on the street and radio announcements. Alex, realizing that her health would remover her dependence upon him, does everything in his power to keep Michele...
- 12/2/2014
- by Joshua Gaul
- SoundOnSight
Writer and director Asghar Farhadi had a couple award winning films to his name prior to 2011, but nothing of the notoriety that came with the release of his critically lauded examination of marital disintegration, A Separation. With his newest, he managed to rake in top prizes worldwide, from the Berlin Golden Bear to the Best Foreign Picture prize at this year’s Oscars. What makes the film so widely regarded is within this seemingly simple Iranian drama something like a facile murder mystery begins to unfold, and a surprisingly expansive moral complexity is slowly unveiled. Like a cinematic illusion, the key to Farhadi’s finely composed puzzle is in what he holds back from the audience, but to his credit, he doesn’t just rely on the payoff for narrative satisfaction.
Beginning with a confrontational office divorce, Simin (Leila Hatami) wants to leave the country on a soon to expire visa,...
Beginning with a confrontational office divorce, Simin (Leila Hatami) wants to leave the country on a soon to expire visa,...
- 8/29/2012
- by Jordan M. Smith
- IONCINEMA.com
Chicago – What makes up a great audio commentary? For me, I don’t want to hear anecdotes about what it was like on the set. And I can’t stand those audio tracks that essentially just describe what I’m watching. A great track illuminates a film in a new way, often pointing out things that you didn’t notice or filmmaking techniques that worked on a subliminal level. Such is the case with writer/director Asghar Farhadi’s track on his 2011 masterpiece “A Separation,” the winner of the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film (along with the Chicago Film Critics Association Award in the same category) and one of the best films of the last decade from any country.
Rating: 5.0/5.0
From the very beginning, Farhadi’s audio commentary only makes his film more interesting. He points out how and why he had his two central characters speaking directly to...
Rating: 5.0/5.0
From the very beginning, Farhadi’s audio commentary only makes his film more interesting. He points out how and why he had his two central characters speaking directly to...
- 8/27/2012
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Blu-ray & DVD Release Date: Aug. 21, 2012
Price: DVD $30.99, Blu-ray $35.99
Studio: Sony
Complications arise when Leila Hatami and Peyman Moadi plan their divorce in A Separation.
The 2011 Iranian drama film A Separation racked up a whole lot of honors in 2012, including the Academy Award, Golden Globe and Independent Spirit Award for Best Foreign Language film.
Set in contemporary Iran, the movie is about the dissolution of a marriage: Simin (Leila Hatami) wants to leave Iran with her husband Nader (Peyman Moadi) and daughter Termeh (Sarina Farhadi) and sues for divorce when Nader refuses to leave behind his Alzheimer-suffering father (Ali-Asghar Shahbazi). Her request having failed, Simin returns to her parents’ home but, Termeh decides to stay with Nader. When Nader hires a young woman (Sareh Bayat) to assist with his father in his wife’s absence, he hopes that his life will return to a normal state. But serious complications soon ensue...
Price: DVD $30.99, Blu-ray $35.99
Studio: Sony
Complications arise when Leila Hatami and Peyman Moadi plan their divorce in A Separation.
The 2011 Iranian drama film A Separation racked up a whole lot of honors in 2012, including the Academy Award, Golden Globe and Independent Spirit Award for Best Foreign Language film.
Set in contemporary Iran, the movie is about the dissolution of a marriage: Simin (Leila Hatami) wants to leave Iran with her husband Nader (Peyman Moadi) and daughter Termeh (Sarina Farhadi) and sues for divorce when Nader refuses to leave behind his Alzheimer-suffering father (Ali-Asghar Shahbazi). Her request having failed, Simin returns to her parents’ home but, Termeh decides to stay with Nader. When Nader hires a young woman (Sareh Bayat) to assist with his father in his wife’s absence, he hopes that his life will return to a normal state. But serious complications soon ensue...
- 7/5/2012
- by Laurence
- Disc Dish
Our critics select the likely winners of Sunday night's statuettes, plus the people and films more deserving of the prizes and those who weren't even nominated – but should have been
Peter Bradshaw
Best picture
Will win: The Artist
Should win: The Artist
Shoulda been a contender: We Need To Talk About Kevin
Best director
Will win: Michel Hazanavicius (The Artist)
Should win: Michel Hazanavicius
Shoulda been a contender: Steve McQueen (Shame)
Best actor
Will win: Jean Dujardin (The Artist)
Should win: Jean Dujardin
Shoulda been a contender: Michael Fassbender (Shame)
Best supporting actor
Will win: Kenneth Branagh (My Week With Marilyn)
Should win: Kenneth Branagh
Shoulda been a contender: Bruce Greenwood (Meek's Cutoff)
Best actress
Will win: Meryl Streep (The Iron Lady)
Should win: Meryl Streep
Shoulda been a contender: Anna Paquin (Margaret)
Best supporting actress
Will win: Octavia Spencer (The Help)
Should win: Melissa McCarthy (Bridesmaids)
Shoulda been a...
Peter Bradshaw
Best picture
Will win: The Artist
Should win: The Artist
Shoulda been a contender: We Need To Talk About Kevin
Best director
Will win: Michel Hazanavicius (The Artist)
Should win: Michel Hazanavicius
Shoulda been a contender: Steve McQueen (Shame)
Best actor
Will win: Jean Dujardin (The Artist)
Should win: Jean Dujardin
Shoulda been a contender: Michael Fassbender (Shame)
Best supporting actor
Will win: Kenneth Branagh (My Week With Marilyn)
Should win: Kenneth Branagh
Shoulda been a contender: Bruce Greenwood (Meek's Cutoff)
Best actress
Will win: Meryl Streep (The Iron Lady)
Should win: Meryl Streep
Shoulda been a contender: Anna Paquin (Margaret)
Best supporting actress
Will win: Octavia Spencer (The Help)
Should win: Melissa McCarthy (Bridesmaids)
Shoulda been a...
- 2/24/2012
- by Peter Bradshaw, Catherine Shoard, Xan Brooks, Andrew Pulver, Henry Barnes
- The Guardian - Film News
Each week within this column Spirit Award voter & film critic Kristy Puchko will offer a keen insight on a new selection of nominees for the 2012 Spirit Awards, along with any garnered behind-the-scenes exclusives. The Spirit Awards will air February 25th @10Pm on IFC.
Last week I shared my thoughts on some of the films I loathed this year, and so am thrilled to share some of my favorites from this year’s Spirit line-up with you today. Let’s get to it.
The Interrupters ~ Directed by Steve James
Nominations: Best Documentary
“I can’t aid and abed shit. I flush shit,” these are the tough love words of Ameena Matthews, a former gang member turned violence interrupter who dedicates herself and her time to the rage-filled residents of Chicago, counseling them to stop the gang violence that has long-ravaged the community. Hoop Dreams director Steve James dives deep into the...
Last week I shared my thoughts on some of the films I loathed this year, and so am thrilled to share some of my favorites from this year’s Spirit line-up with you today. Let’s get to it.
The Interrupters ~ Directed by Steve James
Nominations: Best Documentary
“I can’t aid and abed shit. I flush shit,” these are the tough love words of Ameena Matthews, a former gang member turned violence interrupter who dedicates herself and her time to the rage-filled residents of Chicago, counseling them to stop the gang violence that has long-ravaged the community. Hoop Dreams director Steve James dives deep into the...
- 2/7/2012
- by jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
- The Film Stage
At the end of each month, the Sound On Sight staff will band together to write an article about their favourite scenes in films released. Here are our favourite scenes from the month of January.
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The Grey – In media res
Near the end of Joe Carnahan’s admirably ambling survival thriller, the energy begins to re-mount as it becomes clear that Ottway (Liam Neeson) is about to make what may be his final stand against the wilderness that has dogged him and his fellow survivors for the last, oh, 110 minutes or so. Then, a sight familiar to anyone who’s seen promotional materials: Neeson taping broken bottles between his knuckles, with a knife in the other hand. For the last time, visions of his wife return, once again intoning, “don’t be scared,” only this time revealed to have a very different meaning than we might previously have inferred.
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The Grey – In media res
Near the end of Joe Carnahan’s admirably ambling survival thriller, the energy begins to re-mount as it becomes clear that Ottway (Liam Neeson) is about to make what may be his final stand against the wilderness that has dogged him and his fellow survivors for the last, oh, 110 minutes or so. Then, a sight familiar to anyone who’s seen promotional materials: Neeson taping broken bottles between his knuckles, with a knife in the other hand. For the last time, visions of his wife return, once again intoning, “don’t be scared,” only this time revealed to have a very different meaning than we might previously have inferred.
- 1/29/2012
- by Ricky
- SoundOnSight
Chicago – Divorce, aging parents, economics, religion and social standing can be applied to any circumstance in any modern culture. The culture in Iran may seem mysterious, but there is nothing uncommon regarding what their people go through in the Oscar nominated “A Separation.”
Rating: 4.0/5.0
Winner of the Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Film, and nominated for an Academy Award in the same category, “A Separation” is a universal example of how one problem can trip a wire to many problems. Viewed through the filter of the patriarchal society of Iran, those problems offer even more intensity, with the women becoming both the arbiters of the solutions and the victims of what future may result from those solutions.
Nader (Peyman Moadi) and Simin (Leila Hatami) are shown in the beginning as requesting a divorce in an Iranian court. There is no major conflict, it’s just that Nader refuses to...
Rating: 4.0/5.0
Winner of the Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Film, and nominated for an Academy Award in the same category, “A Separation” is a universal example of how one problem can trip a wire to many problems. Viewed through the filter of the patriarchal society of Iran, those problems offer even more intensity, with the women becoming both the arbiters of the solutions and the victims of what future may result from those solutions.
Nader (Peyman Moadi) and Simin (Leila Hatami) are shown in the beginning as requesting a divorce in an Iranian court. There is no major conflict, it’s just that Nader refuses to...
- 1/27/2012
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
One last (I presume) set of critics' award nominations before we head into the second stage of Oscar season: the International Conephile Society is made up of over 80 international journalists and film professionals, and that diversity is reflected in the nominations, with "A Separation" topping the list with 10 nominations (including four acting bids, none of them for the superb Sarina Farhadi). I participated in the voting, which probably won't surprise you when you read the nomination tallies for "Weekend" and "Margaret." Full list after the jump. Best Picture "Certified Copy" "Drive" "Hugo" "Margaret" "Meek's Cutoff" "Melancholia" "Mysteries of Lisbon" ...
- 1/24/2012
- by Guy Lodge
- Hitfix
Kramer vs. Kramer goes Iranian with Asghar Farhadi's A Separation, a late 2011 entry that's been deservedly racking up almost every "Best Foreign Language" film award that has been dished out this season.
But A Separation is much than a tale of a man and woman in love whose marital path has come to a fork in the road; it is a dissection of modern morality, both religious and secular, and how impossible it is to live a totally principled life if you're stuck interacting with other Homo sapiens. Or, to get a little Socratic, "A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true."
The picture begins in court with divorce proceedings. Simin (Leila Hatami) wants to leave Iran to afford her daughter Termeh (Sarina Farhadi) a more preferable future than her patriarchal homeland can provide.
But A Separation is much than a tale of a man and woman in love whose marital path has come to a fork in the road; it is a dissection of modern morality, both religious and secular, and how impossible it is to live a totally principled life if you're stuck interacting with other Homo sapiens. Or, to get a little Socratic, "A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true."
The picture begins in court with divorce proceedings. Simin (Leila Hatami) wants to leave Iran to afford her daughter Termeh (Sarina Farhadi) a more preferable future than her patriarchal homeland can provide.
- 1/11/2012
- by Brandon Judell
- www.culturecatch.com
Asghar Farhadi on the set of A Separation
Photo: Sony Pictures Classics A lot has been written this year about what is happening in the Middle East. It is a region filled with change from the so-called Arab Spring, the Nato intervention in Libya, the continued turmoil in Syria and other countries, more sabre rattling with Iran as well as the Us withdrawal in Iraq. Change is everywhere in the region. There have also been some very important developments in the film world. First, the Iranian film A Separation, directed by Asghar Farhadi won almost every important award at the 2011 Berlin Film Festival, including both the Audience Award and the Grand Jury Prize. Then, this Fall, at the Toronto Film Festival, Lebanese film Where Do We Go Now?, directed by Nadine Labaki shocked everyone by winning the Audience Award over extremely tough competition. How tough is the competition at Tiff?...
Photo: Sony Pictures Classics A lot has been written this year about what is happening in the Middle East. It is a region filled with change from the so-called Arab Spring, the Nato intervention in Libya, the continued turmoil in Syria and other countries, more sabre rattling with Iran as well as the Us withdrawal in Iraq. Change is everywhere in the region. There have also been some very important developments in the film world. First, the Iranian film A Separation, directed by Asghar Farhadi won almost every important award at the 2011 Berlin Film Festival, including both the Audience Award and the Grand Jury Prize. Then, this Fall, at the Toronto Film Festival, Lebanese film Where Do We Go Now?, directed by Nadine Labaki shocked everyone by winning the Audience Award over extremely tough competition. How tough is the competition at Tiff?...
- 1/6/2012
- by Bill Cody
- Rope of Silicon
A Separation
Written and directed by Asghar Farhadi
Iran, 2011
A Separation is one of those multi-purpose titles that suggests many different conditions under examination in this richly textured film. The most obvious separation is the dissolution of the marriage between two main characters, Simin (Leila Hatami) and Nader (Peyman Moadi). Simin has a visa about to expire in forty days. Having failed to convince her husband to leave the country with her, she files for divorce and petitions the Iranian court to grant her custody of their daughter Termeh (Sarina Farhadi), believing she can find a better life and more opportunities for the two of them outside of Iran. Simin gets the divorce but not custody of Termeh, so she moves in with her family as she prepares her departure from Iran and seeks further legal recourse to bring her daughter with her.
Termeh continues to live with Nader for the time being,...
Written and directed by Asghar Farhadi
Iran, 2011
A Separation is one of those multi-purpose titles that suggests many different conditions under examination in this richly textured film. The most obvious separation is the dissolution of the marriage between two main characters, Simin (Leila Hatami) and Nader (Peyman Moadi). Simin has a visa about to expire in forty days. Having failed to convince her husband to leave the country with her, she files for divorce and petitions the Iranian court to grant her custody of their daughter Termeh (Sarina Farhadi), believing she can find a better life and more opportunities for the two of them outside of Iran. Simin gets the divorce but not custody of Termeh, so she moves in with her family as she prepares her departure from Iran and seeks further legal recourse to bring her daughter with her.
Termeh continues to live with Nader for the time being,...
- 1/4/2012
- by Kenneth
- SoundOnSight
Asghar Farhadi’s A Separation begins with the eponymous event: After 14 years of marriage, one that yielded an 11-year-old daughter (Sarina Farhadi), Leila Hatami opts to file for divorce from husband Peyman Moaadi over his refusal to take their family out of the country. And with that first yank of a loose thread, the entire sweater starts to unravel, carrying with it a devastating list of unforeseen consequences that drags all parties into the Iranian legal system and allows Farhadi to comment on class, marriage, parenthood, honor, and justice. Iranian films are often praised for their simplicity, but it ...
- 12/29/2011
- avclub.com
Though not as well known outside Iran as Abbas Kiarostami or Jafar Panahi, writer-director Asghar Farhadi has been steadily building an impressive cinematic resume since graduating from Tehran University in 1998 with a degree in dramatic arts. After a stint developing stage plays and TV series for Iran’s national broadcasting corporation, Farhadi co-scripted Ebrahim Hatamikia’s post-9/11 political farce Low Heights, about a desperate man who hijacks a plane carrying his wife and handicapped son. He then moved into the director’s chair with Dancing in the Dust and Beautiful City, a social-issue film concerning the archaic custom of “blood money” (under sharia, the relatives of a murdered Muslim can accept payment for legal vengeance in lieu of capital punishment for the perpetrator) that screened at Film Forum in 2006. Three years later, Farhadi won numerous awards, including the Silver Bear at the Berlinale, for About Elly, a tense, character-driven drama...
- 12/28/2011
- by Damon Smith
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
New clips and trailer for Asghar Farhadi's A Separation, starring Peyman Moaadi and Leila Hatami. The Sony Pictures Classics drama opens on December 30th in New York and Los Angeles, and is helmed and scripted by Asghar Farhadi (Tambourine, About Elly, Beautiful City). Also in the cast are Shahab Hosseini, Sarina Farhadi and Merila Zare'i. 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.
- 12/7/2011
- Upcoming-Movies.com
New clips and trailer for Asghar Farhadi's A Separation, starring Peyman Moaadi and Leila Hatami. The Sony Pictures Classics drama opens on December 30th in New York and Los Angeles, and is helmed and scripted by Asghar Farhadi (Tambourine, About Elly, Beautiful City). Also in the cast are Shahab Hosseini, Sarina Farhadi and Merila Zare'i. 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.
- 12/7/2011
- Upcoming-Movies.com
New clips and trailer for Asghar Farhadi's A Separation, starring Peyman Moaadi and Leila Hatami. The Sony Pictures Classics drama opens on December 30th in New York and Los Angeles, and is helmed and scripted by Asghar Farhadi (Tambourine, About Elly, Beautiful City). Also in the cast are Shahab Hosseini, Sarina Farhadi and Merila Zare'i. 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.
- 12/7/2011
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Every now and then a film comes along which wraps you up so successfully in its atmosphere – one in which you would not normally find yourself exposed – that returning to the normal ‘everyday’ world you inhibit takes some re-adjusting.
Films like Martin Scorsese’s Taxi Driver, which suffocates you in the grim reality of 70s New York and the even grimmer psychosis of Travis Bickle; or Yasujiro Ozu’s Tokyo Story – a film which slowly draws you into the stifling societal structures of a Japanese culture and era which seems alien to modern audiences; or, more recently, We Need To Talk About Kevin – in which the creeping horror and unrelieved tension makes you more than glad to return to normality. Asqhar Farhadi’s A Separation is another one to add to the list.
We begin with a couple, Simir (Leila Hatami) and Nader (Peyman Moaadi), asking a judge for a divorce.
Films like Martin Scorsese’s Taxi Driver, which suffocates you in the grim reality of 70s New York and the even grimmer psychosis of Travis Bickle; or Yasujiro Ozu’s Tokyo Story – a film which slowly draws you into the stifling societal structures of a Japanese culture and era which seems alien to modern audiences; or, more recently, We Need To Talk About Kevin – in which the creeping horror and unrelieved tension makes you more than glad to return to normality. Asqhar Farhadi’s A Separation is another one to add to the list.
We begin with a couple, Simir (Leila Hatami) and Nader (Peyman Moaadi), asking a judge for a divorce.
- 11/25/2011
- by Robert Munro
- Obsessed with Film
Jean-Marc Vallée's Café du Flore Chantal Akerman, Joseph Cedar, Béla Tarr, Nuri Bilge Ceylan: AFI Fest 2011 World Cinema Selections Arirang: Traumatized by a near-fatal accident during filming, director Kim Ki-duk offers a visionary self-portrait of a troubled artist reeling from an emotional breakdown. Dir Kim Ki-duk. South Korea. U.S. Premiere. CAFÉ Du Flore: In his follow-up to C.R.A.Z.Y., Jean Marc Vallée tells two parallel stories connected by music about a Montreal D.J. and a mother devoted to her special-needs son. Dir/Scr Jean-Marc Vallée. Cast Vanessa Paradis, Kevin Parent, Hélène Florent, Evelyne Brochu, Marin Gerrier. Canada. U.S. Premiere. Extraterrestrial: Timecrimes director Nacho Vigalondo’s surprising second feature finds an alien invasion providing the backdrop for one of the most delightful romantic comedies in years. Dir/Scr Nacho Vigalondo. Cast Julian Villagran, Michelle Jenner, Raul Cimas, Carlos Areces, Miguel Noguera. Spain. Faust: Russian Ark director...
- 10/23/2011
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
A Separation
Written and directed by Asghar Farhadi
Iran, 2011
A Separation is one of those multi-purpose titles that suggests many different conditions under examination in this richly textured film. The most obvious separation is the dissolution of the marriage between two main characters, Simin (Leila Hatami) and Nader (Peyman Moadi). Simin has a visa about to expire in forty days. Having failed to convince her husband to leave the country with her, she files for divorce and petitions the Iranian court to grant her custody of their daughter Termeh (Sarina Farhadi), believing she can find a better life and more opportunities for the two of them outside of Iran. Simin gets the divorce but not custody of Termeh, so she moves in with her family as she prepares her departure from Iran and seeks further legal recourse to bring her daughter with her.
Termeh continues to live with Nader for the time being,...
Written and directed by Asghar Farhadi
Iran, 2011
A Separation is one of those multi-purpose titles that suggests many different conditions under examination in this richly textured film. The most obvious separation is the dissolution of the marriage between two main characters, Simin (Leila Hatami) and Nader (Peyman Moadi). Simin has a visa about to expire in forty days. Having failed to convince her husband to leave the country with her, she files for divorce and petitions the Iranian court to grant her custody of their daughter Termeh (Sarina Farhadi), believing she can find a better life and more opportunities for the two of them outside of Iran. Simin gets the divorce but not custody of Termeh, so she moves in with her family as she prepares her departure from Iran and seeks further legal recourse to bring her daughter with her.
Termeh continues to live with Nader for the time being,...
- 10/5/2011
- by Kenneth
- SoundOnSight
"'It's a screenwriter's film,' said a friend of Asghar Farhadi's A Separation, a designation that is at once accurate and dismissive, on the nose and besides the point," begins Adam Nayman in Reverse Shot. "Yes, the film, which won the Golden Bear in Berlin and received excellent reviews at the Toronto International Film Festival before its [screening] at Nyff, is extremely well-written, but the idea that its writerly qualities should preclude its recognition as vital cinema strikes me as pretty reductive. The film is superbly written, but it's also smartly directed, insofar as there's a continuity between its writer-director's ideas and the visual language he uses to express them. Take, for example, Farhadi's staging of the first scene…"
Segue to Michael J Anderson: "Opening with a pre-credit passage in which separating eponymous leads Nader (Peyman Moaadi) and Simin (Leila Hatami) address an off-camera magistrate in a tight, frontal two-shot,...
Segue to Michael J Anderson: "Opening with a pre-credit passage in which separating eponymous leads Nader (Peyman Moaadi) and Simin (Leila Hatami) address an off-camera magistrate in a tight, frontal two-shot,...
- 10/2/2011
- MUBI
In an effort to not fall behind on Nyff coverage, here's a double feature from Argentina (possible Oscar submission) and Iran (Oscar submission!) .
The Student
Have you ever longed to learn every detail of the chaotic, multi-partied, backroom deal heavy politics of Argentina through the metaphorical microcosm of elections at a Buenos Aires university? If you answered "yes" than Santiago Mitre's The Student is the movie for you! If you answered "huh, what?" than I should quickly add that I'm not entirely sure that that's what The Student is on about. The movie's continual barrage of name-and acronym heavy information, both in dialogue and in dry omniscient narration, and its crowded character map of continually changing alliances and sudden betrayals suggests to me that politically aware Argentinians would understand and revel in its deeper implications more clearly than I possibly could.
As it is I was, like the titular...
The Student
Have you ever longed to learn every detail of the chaotic, multi-partied, backroom deal heavy politics of Argentina through the metaphorical microcosm of elections at a Buenos Aires university? If you answered "yes" than Santiago Mitre's The Student is the movie for you! If you answered "huh, what?" than I should quickly add that I'm not entirely sure that that's what The Student is on about. The movie's continual barrage of name-and acronym heavy information, both in dialogue and in dry omniscient narration, and its crowded character map of continually changing alliances and sudden betrayals suggests to me that politically aware Argentinians would understand and revel in its deeper implications more clearly than I possibly could.
As it is I was, like the titular...
- 10/1/2011
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
In its 49th year, the New York Film Festival boasts a wide-array of striking and rightfully heralded cinema, including several foreign-language Oscar hopefuls. Among this exclusive few is A Separation, the awe-inspiring drama from internationally acclaimed Iranian filmmaker Asghar Farhadi that has already won the prestigious Golden Bear for Best Film at the 2011 Berlin International Film Festival, as well as acting awards for its four adult leads. I rarely list accolades in reviews, but out of fear the film’s deceptively simple premise may not entice, I want you to understand the incredible poignancy and power of this truly remarkable film.
The story centers on two married couples: Hodjat and Razieh (Shahab Hosseini and Sareh Bayat) who are blue-collared and devout Muslims, and Nader and Simin (Peyman Moaadi and Leila Hatami) who are wealthier and far more secular. Their differences are immediately apparent from from the wives’ chosen attire. While...
The story centers on two married couples: Hodjat and Razieh (Shahab Hosseini and Sareh Bayat) who are blue-collared and devout Muslims, and Nader and Simin (Peyman Moaadi and Leila Hatami) who are wealthier and far more secular. Their differences are immediately apparent from from the wives’ chosen attire. While...
- 9/30/2011
- by jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
- The Film Stage
Title: A Separation Directed By: Asghar Farhadi Written By: Asghar Farhadi Cast: Leila Hatami, Peyman Moadi, Shahab Hosseini, Sareh Bayat, Sarina Farhadi, Babak Karimi, Ali-Asghar Shahbazi, Shirin Yazdanbakhsh, Kimia Hosseini, Merila Zarei Screened at: Review 2, NYC, 9/27/11 Opens: December 30, 2011 This Iranian film may be as talky as anything by the French, but instead of dealing like them with romantic love and lust and the jealousies created thereby, writer-director Asghar Farhadi goes deeply into the broad questions of loyalty, justice, social class, religion, and nuances of behavior that make us root first for one citizen, then for the other, finally leaving us to make our own decisions as...
- 9/28/2011
- by Brian Corder
- ShockYa
2 new clips from Sony Pictures Classics A Separation, directed by Asghar Farhadi. Stars Peyman Moaadi an Leila Hatami. Winner of the 2011 Berlin International Film Festival's Golden Bear Award for Best Film, the Persian drama helmed by Asghar Farhadi opens on December 30th in New York and Los Angeles. Also in the cast of A Separation are Sareh Bayat, Shahab Hosseini, Sarina Farhadi and Merila Zare'i. We have 2 clips in standard and high definition from film set in in contemporary Iran which is a compelling drama is 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.
- 9/13/2011
- Upcoming-Movies.com
2 new clips from Sony Pictures Classics A Separation, directed by Asghar Farhadi. Stars Peyman Moaadi an Leila Hatami. Winner of the 2011 Berlin International Film Festival's Golden Bear Award for Best Film, the Persian drama helmed by Asghar Farhadi opens on December 30th in New York and Los Angeles. Also in the cast of A Separation are Sareh Bayat, Shahab Hosseini, Sarina Farhadi and Merila Zare'i. We have 2 clips in standard and high definition from film set in in contemporary Iran which is a compelling drama is 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.
- 9/13/2011
- Upcoming-Movies.com
This powerful, complex Iranian drama centres on a conflict that cuts across boundaries of gender and class
An unhappily married couple break up in this complex, painful, fascinating Iranian drama by writer-director Asghar Farhadi, with explosive results that expose a network of personal and social faultlines. A Separation is a portrait of a fractured relationship and an examination of theocracy, domestic rule and the politics of sex and class – and it reveals a terrible, pervasive sadness that seems to well up through the asphalt and the brickwork. In its depiction of national alienation in Iran, it's comparable to the work of Jafar Panahi and Mohammad Rasoulof. But there is a distinct western strand. The film shows a middle-class household under siege from an angry outsider; there are semi-unsolved mysteries, angry confrontations and family burdens: an ageing parent and two children from warring camps appearing to make friends. All these things...
An unhappily married couple break up in this complex, painful, fascinating Iranian drama by writer-director Asghar Farhadi, with explosive results that expose a network of personal and social faultlines. A Separation is a portrait of a fractured relationship and an examination of theocracy, domestic rule and the politics of sex and class – and it reveals a terrible, pervasive sadness that seems to well up through the asphalt and the brickwork. In its depiction of national alienation in Iran, it's comparable to the work of Jafar Panahi and Mohammad Rasoulof. But there is a distinct western strand. The film shows a middle-class household under siege from an angry outsider; there are semi-unsolved mysteries, angry confrontations and family burdens: an ageing parent and two children from warring camps appearing to make friends. All these things...
- 7/1/2011
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
Nader and Simin, a Separation
The competition at the 61st Berlin Film Festival just came to an end so it’s right time to announce some winners!
For the first time in the history of the Berlinale, The Golden Bear went to Iran! Asghar Farhadi‘s drama Nader and Simin, a Separation (a look at contemporary Iranian society) took the top three awards including the Golden Bear for best pic and ensemble male and female casts for actor and actress Silver Bears.
Now, that’s what we call a warm reception!
On receiving his Golden Bear, Farhadi said that he had never thought that he would win and then took a moment to think of his country and his imprisoned colleague Jafar Panahi who had been prevented from coming to Berlin to serve on the International Jury.
Nader and Simin, a Separation follows the title’s couple when the husband,...
The competition at the 61st Berlin Film Festival just came to an end so it’s right time to announce some winners!
For the first time in the history of the Berlinale, The Golden Bear went to Iran! Asghar Farhadi‘s drama Nader and Simin, a Separation (a look at contemporary Iranian society) took the top three awards including the Golden Bear for best pic and ensemble male and female casts for actor and actress Silver Bears.
Now, that’s what we call a warm reception!
On receiving his Golden Bear, Farhadi said that he had never thought that he would win and then took a moment to think of his country and his imprisoned colleague Jafar Panahi who had been prevented from coming to Berlin to serve on the International Jury.
Nader and Simin, a Separation follows the title’s couple when the husband,...
- 2/20/2011
- by Fiona
- Filmofilia
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