Wednesday, March 13, 2013

A Separation - 2011 - 4½ Stars

Actors:  Peyman Moadi, Leila Hatami
Director:  Ashgar Farhadi

There are films where the individual pieces fit together to form a much greater whole, and films where the whole spills out all over the pieces - the pieces don't form a whole.  I was going to call this film Cassevetes In Iran, but that's doing this film a disservice - Cassavetes films are spilling films, they might end up somewhere or nowhere at all.  This one knows what it's doing at all times, and it's all here - class, culture, love, family, and ultimately what we value highest.  Confident direction also helps what could be a visually uninteresting film.

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