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Title: A Separation (2011)
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| Credited cast: | |||
| Payman Maadi | ... | Nader (as Peyman Moadi) | |
| Leila Hatami | ... | Simin | |
| Sareh Bayat | ... | Razieh | |
| Shahab Hosseini | ... | Hojjat | |
| Sarina Farhadi | ... | Termeh | |
| Merila Zare'i | ... | Miss Ghahraii | |
| Ali-Asghar Shahbazi | ... | Nader's Father | |
| Babak Karimi | ... | Interrogator | |
| Kimiya Hosseini | ... | Somayeh (as Kimia Hosseini) | |
| Shirin Yazdanbakhsh | ... | Simin's Mother | |
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Sohibanoo Zolqadr | ... | Azam (as Sahabanu Zolghadr) |
| Rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
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Mohammadhasan Asghari | ... | Creditor |
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Shirin Azimiyannezhad | ... | Woman in the Bus |
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Hamid Dadju | ... | Creditor |
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Mohammad Ebrahimian | ... | Judge |
Nader (Payman Maadi) 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. Written by Amin Davoodi
It seems that a court room drama could be the best place for Frahadi to recreate his very own world and confront us with a short and somehow faraway situations and incidents in life. We think these kinds of happenings and conflicts would not take place in our lives but with his realistic world and characters they seem so close and possible to anyone. Asghar Farhadi loves to put his audience in place of judge, as his other pictures like About Eli or Fireworks Wednesday and here with no fear he takes us straight to a court room. But the thing is that the judge does not provide any help for us to make a clear judgment and surprisingly makes the situation even more complicated. Yes Farhadi doesn't want us to make a judgment, He makes us watch and observe and leave the theater with a big fork in front of us.It Seems that any single decision creates another world full of forks and not taken ways.
when nobody is clearly guilty and the line between black and white is so dim. And again here we are in Frhadi's powerful hands surprised to the end of the movie. You can't leave your chair even for one second because the story never lets you to lose even a single moment. And like a tennis ball we're always being shot from this side to the other. And finally we are the daughter shocked and disable to make a decision. May be we haven't seen or we don't want to see this side of life, where nothing is clear, when small lies and unimportant undone things and unsaid words gang up against us and turn to a big disaster. Frahadi has found his own world and his own language and his own version of life. Something we'd never seen before. We appreciate that. He can easily bombard us with information and surprise us with tiny details that seem nothing but like a snowball rolling down a slope they can form a big drama.