Ugly truth, sweet lies
Not currently showing on the local cinema circuit.
| Cast |
Payman Maadi, Leila Hatami, Sareh Bayat, Shahab Hosseini, Sarina Farhadi |
| Director |
Asghar Farhadi |
| Screenplay | Asghar Farhadi |
| Music | Sattar Oraki |
| Cinematography | Mahmoud Kalari |
| Editing | Haayedeh Safiyari |
| Sound formats | Dolby SR |
| Made in | 2011 |
| Produced by | Asghar Farhadi |
Official Site | IMDB page
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| Genre | Drama |
| Language | None |
| Nudity | None |
| Sex | None |
| Violence | Brief, realistic and moderate, infrequent |
| Prejudice | None |
| Blasphemy | None |
| Drug abuse | None |
| Comments | Foreign film with English subtitles and complex and mature themes of religious dogma explored. |
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| Scale (Max) | 20 |  |
What the Critics say | ||
| Cape Argus / The Star Helen Herimbi  When loyalty to a family drives a wedge | 10 |  |
| Die Burger Paul Boekkooi Blik op liefde, konflik se aard soms apos;n riller | 15 |  |
| Cape Times Deborah Young The great divide | 15 | |
| Box Office Wade Major The most relevant Foreign Film in the Oscar lineup | 15 | |
| Chicago Sunday Times Roger Ebert | 20 | |
| ReelViews James Berardinelli A Separation, Asghar Farhadi's universally acclaimed 2011 feature, is many things, none of them trivial. | 18 | |
| Rolling Stone Peter Travers A Separation is a landmark film. No way will you be able to get it out of your head. | 18 | |
| Metacritic.com 41 critics | 19 | |
| Rottentomatoes critics 143 critics | 18 | |
| Rottentomatoes tomatometer Tomatometer Morally complex, suspenseful, and consistently involving, A Separation captures the messiness of a dissolving relationship with keen insight and searing intensity. | 20 | |
| Movie Review Query Engine MRQE critics   | 17 | |
| Movie Review Intelligence 46 critics | 19 | |
What the People say | ||
| Internet 69747 Netizens A Perfection | 17 | |
Average .. 85% | 17 | |