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A Separation

2011 · Drama · Asghar Farhadi · 2h 3m

A Tehran wife wants to leave the country and her husband will not leave his father, and the woman they hire to mind him ends up taking them to court. Almost all of it is people arguing, and everyone has a point.

  • Strongly realistic
  • Clearly intimate
  • Clearly heavy

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