Nader und Simin – eine Trennung (2011)

Nader und Simin – eine Trennung: Directed by Asghar Farhadi. With Payman Maadi, Leila Hatami, Sareh Bayat, Shahab Hosseini. A married couple are faced with a difficult decision – to improve the life of their child by moving to another country or to stay in Iran and look after a deteriorating parent who has Alzheimer’s disease.

“And it comes from Iran. The first thing you read on the screen is u0026quot;In the name of Godu0026quot;. Well, anyway itu0026#39;s the best story, the best cutting, the best actors youu0026#39;ve seen for long. And few films are that stomach-turning, although thereu0026#39;s hardly any physical violence.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eA wife wants to go abroad. Her husband canu0026#39;t because he wants to take of his senile father. The wife moves and the husband hires a woman to look after his father.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eAnd then the screw turns, although most of the story takes place in everyday Iranian life. The center of it all is perhaps the daughter, who is nearly teared apart. But it takes time until you realize that. Anyway, I can almost guarantee you sit the film through, until the final post-texts has passed.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eSo amazingly clever.”