A Separation

Simin seeks a divorce because Nader refuses to leave Iran while caring for his father, who has Alzheimer's disease. After she moves out, Nader hires Razieh as a caregiver, and a household confrontation creates conflicting accounts with serious consequences.

Farhadi positions a request for divorce, an elderly father's care, a hired worker, and conflicting testimony as tension, deploying blocked interiors and precisely calibrated performances so each new fact changes responsibility without producing an easy villain.