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Why 'A Separation' Is the Foreign Film to Beat at the Oscars
30 December 2011 1:00 PM, PST | NextMovie | See recent NextMovie news »
Despite its being a foreign film with no stars familiar to a North American audience, you may have already heard of "A Separation." The reason? A slew of critics have named it among their top picks of the year. Roger Ebert went so far as to name it the film of the year.
The Iranian film industry knows what it has on its hands. Iran named the scorcher as its official candidate for the Best Foreign Language Film at the upcoming Academy Awards, and chances are "A Separation" will make the nominee cut. The film hits select theaters December 30, and we urge you to venture out and see what all the hype is about. It's warranted.
In the drama, masterfully written and directed by Asghar Farhadi, Leila Hatami and Peyman Moaadi star as a married couple with an 11-year-old daughter, on the verge of separating. Hatami's character, Simin, wants to »
- Nigel Smith
Film Of The Week: A Separation
29 December 2011 1:13 PM, PST | GreenCine Daily | See recent GreenCine Daily news »
by Vadim Rizov
A Separation literally makes the viewer judge its protagonists: in the opening scene, wife Simin (Leila Hatami) pleads for a divorce from husband Nader (Peyman Maadi). The Pov is the judge's, who skeptically asks why an Iranian woman would possibly want her daughter to grow up anywhere else. The offscreen interrogator/filmmaker is a familiar figure in Iranian cinema, with Abbas Kiarostami and Jafar Panahi often breaking the fourth walls in their films, often directly appearing (and/or heard off-camera) asking their characters questions. Kiarostami's seemingly given up on making films in Iran at all, while Panahi's imprisoned; for many, Iranian cinema's currently more associated right now with its absentees than actual films. But writer-director Asghar Farhadi's now completed five features, carefully disavowing any political intent in interviews. "There's a difference between intentions and message," a typical feint to The New York Times went. “My intention »
Film: Movie Review: A Separation
28 December 2011 10:03 PM, PST | avclub.com | See recent The AV Club news »
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 »
Asghar Farhadi, “A Separation”
28 December 2011 12:07 PM, PST | Filmmaker Magazine - Blog | See recent Filmmaker Magazine news »
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 »
- Damon Smith
Review: 'A Separation' Is A Wrenching Portrait Of Duty, Love & Deep Irreconcilable Divisions
27 December 2011 8:55 AM, PST | The Playlist | See recent The Playlist news »
Tucked in amongst all the shinier offerings involving punk hackers, boy reporters and equine conscripts, Asghar Farhadi's "A Separation" is the finest film of this awards season and one of the best of the year, a domestic drama that in its deliberately restricted focus nevertheless opens up a nuanced, multifaceted view of life in contemporary Iran. The story is that of the breakup of a marriage and the legal entanglement that snarls up in its wake, and in its characters -- a wealthier, educated, progressive family and a conservative, religious one struggling with money issues -- you can see symbols of a changing, fractured country. But they're too vibrant, too generously realized to be mere metaphors -- "A Separation" is an involving, wrenching tale of duty, love, appearances versus actualities and how some differences turn out to be irreconcilable. At the film's outset, Nader (Peyman Maadi) and Simin (Leila Hatami) are petitioning directly to. »
No Way Out: Asghar Farhadi on A Separation
26 December 2011 3:00 AM, PST | TribecaFilm.com | See recent Tribeca Film news »
As the end of the year is drawing near, one movie that's popped up on a bunch of top ten lists - but to which American audiences have not yet been privy - is Iranian director Asghar Farhadi's latest feature, A Separation. The movie also has professional credentials, having won the Golden Bear at this year's Berlin International Film Festival, as well as awards for the ensemble cast, including Peyman Maadi, Leila Hatami, and Sareh Bayat. When Farhadi's previous film About Elly won the Best Narrative Feature award at the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival, audiences were moved by the poignant, universal story of family, loss, love, and suspicion. A Separation mines the same territory: in some family situations, nobody is necessarily at fault, but emotions and frustrations come to a head, and devastation ensues. When watching a film from a culture we don't quite comprehend, it's easy to read deeper »
A Separation / Jodaeiye Nader Az Simin (2011) Movie Trailer
7 December 2011 12:54 PM, PST | Film-Book | See recent Film-Book news »
A Separation Trailer, Jodaeiye Nader az Simin Trailer. Asghar Farhadi‘s A Separation / Jodaeiye Nader az Simin (2011) movie trailer stars Peyman Moaadi, Leila Hatami, Sareh Bayat, Shahab Hosseini, and Babak Karimi. A Separation / Jodaeiye Nader az Simin‘s plot synopsis: “Nader (Peyman Moaadi)and Simin (Leila Hatami) argue about living abroad. Simin prefers to live abroad to provide better opportunities for their only daughter, Termeh. However, Nader refuses to go because he thinks he must stay in Iran and take care of his father (Ali-Asghar Shahbazi), who suffers from Alzheimers. However, Simin is determined to get a divorce and leave the country with her daughter.”
This looks good. Many of of the key moments are kept in shadow, off screen. The father is between a rock and a hard place. How does pushing someone out the door result in them dying?
Watch A Separation / Jodaeiye Nader az Simin movie trailer »
- filmbook
A Separation movie trailer and new clips
7 December 2011 2:17 AM, PST | Upcoming-Movies.com | See recent Upcoming-Movies.com news »
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. »
A Separation movie trailer and new clips
7 December 2011 2:17 AM, PST | Upcoming-Movies.com | See recent Upcoming-Movies.com news »
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. »
A Separation movie trailer and new clips
7 December 2011 2:17 AM, PST | Upcoming-Movies.com | See recent Upcoming-Movies.com news »
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. »
Trailer for Oscar Foreign Language Contender 'A Separation'
6 December 2011 11:17 AM, PST | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »
From what I've been hearing, Iran's Oscar contending Foreign Language submission A Separation from director Asghar Farhadi and starring Leila Hatami, Peyman Moaadi, Shahab Hosseini and Sareh Bayat may be the film to beat in this year's race. I actually just received a screener copy yesterday and intend to watch it in the coming days along with In Darkness, Miss Bala and Le Havre as my foreign language plate this year is strangely empty. The synopsis for A Separation reads like this: 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. When Nader hires a young woman to assist with his father in his wife's absence, »
- Brad Brevet
Mark Kermode's DVD round-up
26 November 2011 4:06 PM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Tt: Closer to the Edge; Sarah's Key; A Separation; Transformers 3: Dark of the Moon
News that Asif Kapadia's brilliant Formula One documentary Senna has somehow failed to make the shortlist for the best documentary category at the forthcoming Oscars should come as no surprise to anyone au fait with the ludicrous irrelevance of the Academy Awards. These are, after all, the same awards that deemed Werner Herzog's epochal Grizzly Man unworthy of a nomination in the same category a few years ago on the most specious of technicalities. The fact that this foolhardy oversight should have occurred in a year in which the UK has produced not one but two fabulously insightful portraits of the need-for-speed industry somehow makes the error all the more laughable. Let us merely hope that at the Baftas there is due recognition both for Senna and its nail-biting motorcycling counterpart, Tt: Closer to the Edge (2011, Entertainment One, »
- Mark Kermode
Blu-ray Review: A Separation – One of the year’s best releases.
25 November 2011 1:19 PM, PST | Obsessed with Film | See recent Obsessed with Film news »
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. »
- Robert Munro
Vanessa Paradis/CAFÉ Du Flore, Faust, Arirang, A Separation: AFI Fest 2011
22 October 2011 8:28 PM, PDT | Alt Film Guide | See recent Alt Film Guide news »
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 »
- Andre Soares
Nyff 2011: ‘A Separation’ a rarity that succeeds on many levels
4 October 2011 9:19 PM, PDT | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »
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, »
- Kenneth
A Separation - New York Film Festival Review
4 October 2011 9:11 AM, PDT | Monsters and Critics | See recent Monsters and Critics news »
A light yet powerful Islamic family drama that refuses to cave in to stereotypes. A very surprising film, and a pleasant surprise at that. From the first moments of this movie, when Islamic wife Nader (Peyman Moaadi) argues heatedly with her Islamic husband Simin (Leila Hatami), you are sure she is going to be killed, maimed or humiliated. We are taught to believe this is what happens to uppity Islamic women. Instead, a most complex and intriguing legal, political, romantic, family drama unfolds that has more twists and turns than any spy thriller released this year. It goes without saying that emerging director Asghar Farhadi was not about to make an exploitation film about sexism in the »
- Ron Wilkinson
Nyff 2011. Asghar Farhadi's "A Separation"
2 October 2011 2:37 AM, PDT | MUBI | See recent MUBI news »
"'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, »
Nyff: "The Student" and "A Separation"
1 October 2011 4:00 PM, PDT | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »
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 »
- NATHANIEL R
Golden Bear Winner ‘A Separation’ International Trailer
30 September 2011 6:27 AM, PDT | The Film Stage | See recent The Film Stage news »
The Iranian drama A Separation will make its NY premiere tomorrow evening as part of the 49th New York Film Festival (buy tickets here) (read my rave review here.) This daring and intensely captivating drama has already won accolades in a number of festivals, most notably Silver Bear honors for its leads and the prestigious Golden Bear prize from the Berlin International Film Festival. This thrilling feature’s internationally acclaimed writer/director Asghar Farhadi (pictured above accepting the honors with his daughter Sarina who co-stars in the film) has called A Separation, “a detective story” in which, “the detectives are the audience,” expounding, “The audience is the one in charge of solving the puzzles; there will be as many answers as a audiences.” After a press screening hosted by the Film Society of Lincoln Center, Farhadi told critics, “The answers [themselves] are not important. What is important is that you are thinking. »
- jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
A Separation Movie Review
28 September 2011 3:40 AM, PDT | ShockYa | See recent ShockYa news »
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 »
- Brian Corder
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