100% A Separation

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Tensely involving Iranian drama with niche potential.

Tense and narratively complex, formally dense and morally challenging.

A constant surprise, a film that captures the drama and suspense of real life as urgently as any picture released this year.

Simin's and Nader's divorce debate is the first of many complex issues raised and passionately argued in A Separation.

Movies with this kind of moral complexity are rare, so not only is it worth seeking out, it's one you need to see with friends because it invites -- or rather demands -- debate afterward.

Asghar Farhadi's A Separation serves as a quiet reminder of how good it's possible for movies to be.

So much fun to watch that you could very nearly miss the important fact that it is also as piercing a critique of Iranian society as that country has produced in some time.

There are no heroes or villains in this story: there are only everyday figures who try their best and struggle to survive.

One of the year's most engrossing films, directed by Asghar Farhadi from his richly layered screenplay (some advice: pay particular attention to what occurs in the sequence following the opening credits)

It has an external layer that comments upon Iran's complex and seemingly unfair divorce system, as well as other social customs, but underneath it's not much more than a standard potboiler.

I know I wasn't expecting one of the year's best movies to come from Iran, but here it is.

While the specifics are rooted in Iranian culture, the broad strokes are entirely universal -- it's an intelligent, intriguing and inviting film.

grand metaphorical fiction that unpacks a weighty and involving story

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