Asghar Farhadi
A Separation begins with a divorce petition and becomes a moral trial the audience has to judge. Farhadi plots ordinary lies with the escalation of a thriller, and nobody leaves his films innocent.
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The Past
After four years apart, Ahmad returns to his wife Marie in Paris in order to progress their divorce. During his brief stay, he cannot help noticing the strained relationship between Marie and her daughter Lucie.
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Fellow Iranian New Wave masters, both make films about constraint and resistance, about what can and cannot be shown.
Both are architects of narrative opacity, films that withhold final judgment, where truth fragments across multiple perspectives.
Both excavate social fracture through intimate family dramas, the personal and political made inseparable.
Both use formal precision to expose the machinery of social entrapment, cinema as a court where no one leaves innocent.
