Iranian movie A Separation has won the 2012 Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film – the first middle-eastern picture to claim the honour…
The movie tells the story of a middle-class couple who’s heading for divorce, but things got complicated when the husband is accused of causing the miscarriage of their lower-class maid hired to take care of his Alzheimer-suffering father.
The film raised questions on lots of social issues… taking care of elders, marriage & kids, social class, religion & sins, mental illness, distortions etc. The interesting thing is that it managed to squeeze all the issues smoothly in the storyline, with some clever twists.
