| Academy Awards, USA | |||
| Year | Result | Award | Category/Recipient(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | Won | Oscar | Best Foreign Language Film of the Year Iran. |
| Nominated | Oscar | Best Writing, Original Screenplay Asghar Farhadi | |
Sony Pictures Classics
Directed by Asghar Farhadi
My rating: 2.5 stars out of 4
IMDb
(Starz)
A man and wife separate after 14 years of marriage, leaving the husband to take care of his aging father and teenage daughter alone. He hires a woman to help him, a virtual stranger, but she turns out to be untrustworthy. They argue and he pushes her out the door. He is accused of murder when she has a miscarriage soon afterwards. His life is turned upside down trying to defend himself from the accusations of the woman and her unstable husband with a bad temper. No one, and I mean no one, in this movie gets along: it's a frustrating look at people simply unable, and unwilling, to communicate for various reasons. There are several children involved, and the so-called adults frequently try to unload their guilt onto them. Unfortunately, the shaky-cam seems to have made it all the way to Iran, with the same results as everywhere else: distracting, unnecessary and amateurish.
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