Leila Hatami and Peyman Moadi
So far, the Iranian film, “A Separation” is two-for-two, winning both the Critic’s Choice and Golden Globes statues for Best Foreign Language Film. Expect the trip to continue all the way to Oscar night.
Set in present day Iran, this story goes places you never see coming, after starting with a separation between a man and wife, and how it affects their adolescent daughter. So many parts of this story are as familiar as your relatives’ or even your own life’s ups and downs. Other parts are uniquely Iranian, and it’s cool to get a glimpse of everything from a legal system that works like arguing before a school principal, to bright green kitchen tiles that you’d never buy yourself, but they look perfectly in place in one home in Tehran.
“A Separation” was among my Top Ten Films of 2011, and it opens today in the Washington DC area.The rest of the Top Ten List is Here