The events in Asghar Farhadi’s A Separation, winner of the Golden Bear at this year’s Berlin Film Festival, seem both chaotic and inevitable, unfolding like a slow-motion disaster. Simin (Leila Hatami ...

Good news is not something Nader is used to hearing lately. His wife wants to leave him, his father has Alzheimer's, his bank account is dwindling -- and now the woman he hired to help around the ...

Peyman Moadi, the star of Asghar Farhadi’s Oscar-nominated Iranian domestic drama “A Separation,” is finally at peace with himself and his career. Along the way, though, he gave up his youthful ideas ...

At the start of “A Separation,” an Iranian couple appears before a judge to request a divorce. Simin (Leila Hatami) and Nader (Peyman Moadi) have irreconcilable differences: She wants to move abroad ...

Eager to leave Iran, Simin (Leila Hatami) obtains a coveted visa, but her husband, Nader (Peyman Moadi), won't abandon his aging father. So Simin moves out, forcing Nader to hire a caretaker, which ...

As I’ve written on various top 10 lists (and mentioned to anyone who will listen) Asghar Farhadi’s “A Separation” is an exceptional film. It has been picking up awards since winning the Golden Bear at ...

The Great Divides: Simin (Leila Hatami) and Nader (Peyman Moadi) are at odds first about whether to leave Iran for life abroad — and then about more urgent issues yet. The opening moments of A ...

The movie, which has been nominated for a foreign-language Oscar, begins austerely with a secular, middle-class couple, Simin (Leila Hatami) and Nader (Peyman Moadi), appearing in front of a divorce ...

At the start of A Separation, an Iranian couple appears before a judge to request a divorce. Simin (Leila Hatami) and Nader (Peyman Moadi) have irreconcilable differences: She wants to move abroad ...

When Ashgar Farhadi's film toured the festival circuit last year, it was known as Nader and Simin, A Separation. Rather than losing something, the shortened version took on the multiple layers of ...

The star of "A Separation," which is up for best foreign language film at tonight's Golden Globes, hopes that a win will help the Iranian movie find a global audience. Peyman Moadi, the leading man in ...