Asghar Farhadi, A Separation

Winner of the 2011 Berlin Film Festival Golden Bear as Best Picture and the New York Film Critics Circle Prize as Best Foreign Language Film, Asghar Farhadi’s A Separation is a thrilling accomplishment as it follows two couples, one middle class and contemplating divorce, the other poor and conservatively religious, in contemporary Iran through a legal system that--Roshomon-like--evokes questions of morality, honesty, truth and justice.

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