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The events of A Separation are so absorbing you only occasionally have time to marvel at how much the two leads resemble Dan Harmon and (Blue Velvet era) Isabella Rossellini. Both were great, but the supporting cast steals it, especially the kids. Some of the little one's expressions are nearly unbearable.

You sniff hard for veiled criticism of religion, and there really seems to be some, but you can think of equivalent troubles coming from other sources. Wouldn't take more than thirty minutes' thought to replot it as an American domestic drama. Maybe five if you set it in the South.