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You cannot watch the film without feeling kinship with the characters and admitting their decency as well as their mistakes.
David Thomson, The New Republic
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A Separation
Overview
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.
Director and cast
- Asghar Farhadi Director
- Payman Maadi as Nader
- Leila Hatami as Simin
- Shahab Hosseini as Hojjat
- Sareh Bayat as Razieh
- Sarina Farhadi as Termeh
- Ali-Asghar Shahbazi as Nader's Father
- Merila Zarei as Miss Ghahraii - Termeh's Teacher
- Babak Karimi as Interrogator
- Kimia Hosseini as Somayyeh - Razieh's Daughter
- Armine Zeytounchian as Mrs. Kalaani
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
99%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Dynamically shot and paced like a thriller, the film has the density and moral prickliness of a good novel.
Jon Frosch, The Atlantic
Fresh
These people seem so real they might live next door. And they probably do.
Tom Long, Detroit News
Fresh
"A Separation" is a plaintive fable of the human condition that unites us.
Joe Williams, St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Fresh
Very few movies capture as convincingly as A Separation does the ways in which seemingly honorable decisions can lead to interpersonal conflict -- even disaster.
Lisa Kennedy, Denver Post
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