Film Screening: Asghar Farhadi's "A Separation"
Speakers): Cécile Tresfels
The literal translation of this Iranian’s movie title is “The Separation of Nader from Simin”. The whole drama lies in the legal, physical and psychological attempt of these two characters to part from each other after 14 years of marriage. Nader (Peyman Moadi) and Simin (Leila Hatami), an urban middle-class couple from Teheran, live with their 11-year-old daughter Termeh, and with Nader’s elderly father who suffers from Alzheimer’s disease. Simin wants to leave the country with her husband and daughter while Nader wants to stay with his father. She files for divorce but her application is rejected, so she moves back with her parents while Nader hires Razieh, a young oman from a poor suburb to take care of his father while he is at work. Intimate, subtle and deeply moving, the film received the Golden Bear for Best Film as well as the Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Film.