Review: "A Separation" is a timeless masterpiece about the emotions that guide us and tear us apart
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Film Rating: A+
The opening scene of Asghar Farhadi’s “A Separation” is one long, still take, framed from the eyes of a judge as he listens to a divorcing couple, Simin and Nader. Simin wishes to take her family and leave Iran, so that she may craft a better life for her daughter, Termeh, but Nader wants to stay so he can look after his ailing father, a…
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