1 Time Film Excess Nominee:
Best Screenplay: Asghar Farhadi (lost to Rory Stewart Kinnear, Lynne Ramsay for We Need to Talk About Kevin)
+ Best Iranian Movie of the Year
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| One tender and beautiful poster for Asghar Farhadi's A Separation |
Nader and Simin are a normal middle class couple in Teheran, Iran, who are getting divorced. But more than the divorce, the film is about the problems that follow the man, Nader, when his maid loses her child because of his letting her go.
A Separation is a minute and very sharply written drama with a high level of suspense from great Iranian writer-director Asghar Farhadi (About Elly (2009)). The original Farsi title, pronounced Odaí-e Nadér az Simín, means The Separation of Nader and Simin.
The film is masterly structured and acted by Peyman Moaadi (Camp X-Ray (2014)) and Leila Hatami (What's the Time in Your World? (2014)) in the lead parts as well as the supporting actors, made with considerable difficulty in the totalitarian, Islamic dictatorship. It is a moving partly social-realistic, partly law-centered drama about some highly recognizable issues. It is moving, (although nearly all the characters are insufferable to some degree.) - A bit of humor wouldn't have been out of the way, if you ask me, though.
But A Separation is still a very sad and very good film.
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Watch the trailer for the film here
Cost: 0.5 mil. $
Box office: 22.9 mil. $
= Mega-hit
[A Separation was not only the best reviewed film of 2011 (according to Metacritic's 95 score, based on 41 reviews), and Roger Ebert's favorite film of 2011, Farhadi was also Oscar-nominated for his script (the first non-English script nominated in 5 years), and the film won the Best Foreign Film Oscar as well as key awards in Berlin and tons of other awards and yearly top 10 lists. The film enjoyed a surprisingly strong audience response as well. It was especially big in the US (7 mil. $/31 % of the total gross) and in France (6.1 mil. $/27 %).]
What do you think of A Separation?
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