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Review: A Separation
“Iranian writer-director Asghar Farhadi’s deeply involving A Separation manages to absorb the audience in a tangled domestic whodunit sparked by the break-up of a 14-year marriage, while also engaging them in a conscious dialogue about the thorny moral choices the characters are forced to make. Perfect consonance between the art and camera departments allows Farhadi and cinematographer Mahmood Kalari to shoot family members through windows, doorways, and marbled glass dividers, spatially emphasizing their internal disconnect. Lack of a musical score highlights Farhadi’s resistance to passing any kind of verdict on the characters, who are all angled against each other for their own, often concealed, motives.”
A Separation
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“Iranian writer-director Asghar Farhadi’s deeply involving A Separation manages to absorb the audience in a tangled domestic whodunit sparked by the break-up of a 14-year marriage, while also engaging them in a conscious dialogue about the thorny moral choices the characters are forced to make. Perfect consonance between the art and camera departments allows Farhadi and cinematographer Mahmood Kalari to shoot family members through windows, doorways, and marbled glass dividers, spatially emphasizing their internal disconnect. Lack of a musical score highlights Farhadi’s resistance to passing any kind of verdict on the characters, who are all angled against each other for their own, often concealed, motives.”
