A Separation

2011 "Ugly truth, sweet lies."
8.3| 2h3m| PG-13| en
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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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Solidrariol Am I Missing Something?
Plustown A lot of perfectly good film show their cards early, establish a unique premise and let the audience explore a topic at a leisurely pace, without much in terms of surprise. this film is not one of those films.
Invaderbank The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.
Bluebell Alcock Ok... Let's be honest. It cannot be the best movie but is quite enjoyable. The movie has the potential to develop a great plot for future movies
abduljameel-70015 It was my first Iran film i have seen with a simple content in it its just amazing
valadas This movie is so realistic and well acted by all performers that we even lose the impression of watching a fiction movie and feel that we are peering indeed into the houses and offices of real people. The plot bais is very simple. In modern Iran a wife wants to go abroad for proffessional motives and wants her husband to go with her. He doesn't want to go because he must stay to take care of his father who has got Alzheimer disease. The wife then asks for a divorce in court and leaves to stay with her parents. They have a young daughter for whom this situation becomes a psychological problem. The husband must hire a woman to take permanent care of his father. The situation however gets too complicated by mutual accusations: the man accusing her of having abandoned his father for some time at a given moment and he fell to the ground when alone and hurt himself and also of having stolen money from there; the woman accuses him of having pushed her out of the house which made her to fall on the stairs and suffer an abortion since she was pregnant. This brings all of them to the court of justice and other people enter in scene including the woman's husband who didn't know she had been hired to take care of the old man. The plot develops itself in severel conflicts of lies and truths and sayings and retractions that lead to severe somewhat unexpected complications. Since we are in a Muslim country where most people are deeply religious the invocations of and oaths on the Koran are frequent. A movie full of realistic authenticity in terms of people, scenes and situations.
nachoerrazuriz Borring as hell. Too overated, doesn't deserve this rating
arm19950404 It's A Must Watch Movie For Every Iranian Person... I Watched This Movie 3 Times... And Every Time I Watched It, I Never Tired of Watching... Because of The of Fascinating Story of Writing... And I Suggest To Iranian Persons To Watch This Movie At Least 1 Time... The Playing of Peyman Moadi And Leila Hatami is Perfect...And Is Also Attractive...