A Separation

Simin wants to leave Iran with her husband Nader and their daughter for a better life abroad. Nader refuses — he won't abandon his father, who has Alzheimer's. When Simin moves out, Nader hires a deeply religious woman to care for his father. He doesn't know she is four months pregnant. What begins as a domestic dispute becomes a collision of class, faith, and moral ambiguity that implicates everyone in the room. Farhadi refuses to assign blame. One of the greatest films of the 21st century, and the most precise portrait of a society under pressure I have seen.