A Separation (2011)

Don't listen to the negative reviews

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

It was my first Iran film i have seen with a simple content in it its just amazing

I've a friend from Iran, so I asked her to suggest me some Farsi movie. Though it wasn't her favorite movie she suggested me this one.I watched it with English subtitles & I actually liked the movie. It takes us into the lives of two families & how one incident messes things even further. Made me emotional & sad, empathizing their helpless lives. Definitely at least a one time watch.

An ambiguous miserable soap opera. As a study of how people behave, it's possibly a fairly accurate depiction. Everyone lies, everyone has an agenda, poor people do things they must in order to survive... and get taken advantage of, in the process compromising themselves, becoming less than their better selves and becoming less autonomous and more attached to the absurdity of religion... same story told again and again. And wealthier people appearing to be educated and beyond reproach are quite willing to be less than their better selves for the ends to justify the means.A man hires a woman desperate for work. In order to pay off her husband's creditors this heavily pregnant women is supposed to take care of an old man who is overweight and struck with Alzheimer.Less about a separation, and more about the children jammed between parents and how they must cope with, and make decisions based on the stupidity they see all around them.If you have issues with religion and its inherent moronic side; with class inequality and its, well, inequality, or the tragedy of how children must cope in the messy cauldron caused by adults, probably not the movie for you.I found this well acted, scripted well but a depressing pot boiler of miscommunication and angst that is the cause of most human drama played worldwide daily. Utterly depressing and annoying with no clear ending. Some nonsense about stolen money which is later admitted by the arrogant buffoon of a father to never have been stolen... lots of bickering, unhappiness pouring out at you like a stream of vomit...on and on and on... yuk.

A Separation captures your attention so well because it deals with everybody's fear of trying hard, but ending up with nothing. It seems like the characters in the movie tries their hardest but still falls short, because of their flaws. I recommend it for its honesty and frankness, I do not recommend it for a Friday night movie with friends.