A Separation (Blu-ray) PG-13
Ugly truth, sweet lies.
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: PG-13
- Run Time: 2 hours, 3 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: August 21, 2012
- Originally Released: 2011
- Label: Sony Pictures
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Leila Hatami, Peyman Moaadi, Sareh Bayat, Sarina Farhadi & Shahab Hosseini | |
Directed by | Asghar Farhadi | |
Screenwriting by | Asghar Farhadi | |
Photography by | Habib Majidi | |
Produced by | Asghar Farhadi | |
Director of Photography: | Mahmoud Kalari |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: A- --
Writer/director Asghar Farhadi delivers a complex and honest portrayal of two families in modern-day Tehran. It is a challenging and heartbreaking film that deserves an audience.
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San Antonio Current
Rating: 4/5 --
Cleverly, A Separation doesn't conspicuously proselytise about its socio-political import; it is largely concerned with matters of the family that to some degree are universal
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Patrick Nabarro
It is a rigorously honest movie about the difficulties of being honest, a film that tries to be truthful about the slipperiness of truth.
New York Times
4 stars out of 4 -- The writer-director, Asghar Farhadi, tells his story with a fair and even hand....That a director can make such a sympathetic film in such a troubled time is a tribute to his strength of character.
Chicago Sun-Times
4 stars out of 5 -- [W]riter/director Asghar Farhadi's elegant family drama represents something of a Neorealist departure from the more lyrical films of the Iranian New Wave period.
Box Office
A Separation is a deeply empathetic movie. It feels for all of its characters even as they act in self-serving or self-deceiving ways.
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First Things
Rating: 4.5/5 --
[T]he X Factor in A Separation lies with its cast, bringing the extraordinary out of the seemingly ordinary.
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Musings of Guitargalchina
Product Description:
An Iranian couple plans to flee the country with their young daughter, but finds their marriage suffering after their plans fall through due to an unforeseen complication. Simin; her husband, Nader; and their daughter, Termeh, are all set to leave Iran when Nader impulsively cancels the plans to care for his ailing father. Incensed, Simin attempts to sue for divorce, but finds herself forced to move back in with her parents when the family court rejects her request. In a naïve attempt to reunite her fractured family, Termeh subsequently moves back in with her father as her grandfather slips deeper into the throes of Alzheimer's disease. However, when the demands of caring for his father become too great a burden for one man to carry, Nader hires Razieh as a nurse. At first Razieh seems like the answer to all of Nader's prayers; little does he realize she is carrying a child, and that she's been keeping her career a secret from her husband. Then, one day, Nader returns home to find his father bound to a table and Razieh nowhere in sight. In the explosive confrontation that follows, Termeh sees a side of her father she never knew existed, and Nader's rage threatens tragic consequences for all involved.