A Separation (جدایی نادر از سیمین) (2011)

Within a domestic drama and courtroom procedural lies a complex, morally ambiguous story about being good and lying for the greater good, and the inability to do otherwise.

Director Asghar Farhad's neorealist direction is an antidote to the standard American formulations of the suburban angst drama.

Watch this for: superb and empathetic storytelling.

Read my full review on Fridae, first published on 7 March 2012.