A Separation (2011) (جدایی نادر از سیمین) May 30, 2012 @ 6PM Gene Siskel Film Center {Gallery/Cafe} 164 N. State St. | Chicago, IL 60601 | 312-846-2600 | A Panel Discussion after the Oscar winning “A Separation” by Asghar Farhadi (2011) (جدایی نادر از سیمین) May 30, 2012 | After the 6:00 Screening| {at Gene Siskel Film Center's gallery/cafe} 164 N. State St.| Chicago, IL 60601 |312-846-2600| www.siskelfilmcenter.org/seperation  Moderator: Steve Bynum, Senior producer for Worldview on WBEZ 91.5FM Panelists: Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader lead film critic 1987-2008, Co-Author of “Abbas Kiarostami, (2003)” Prof. Ahmad Sadri, Lake Forest College, Professor of Islamic Studies and Sociology Theater Admission
A SEPARATION (جدایی نادر از سیمین) 2011, Asghar Farhadi, Iran, 123 min. With Peyman Moadi, Leila Hatami “★★★★ Stunning…a singular achievement, a piece of realist cinema with the pull of a suspense thriller.” —Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune “A rigorously honest movie about the difficulties of being honest…tantalizingly and heartbreakingly mysterious.” —A.O. Scott, The New York Times This year’s Oscar-winner for Best Foreign Language Film is a deftly plotted drama in which small evasions and white lies yield devastating consequences when two families of differing classes clash over seemingly irreparable wrongs. A couple seeks a divorce so that she may emigrate with their young daughter, but, with the divorce denied, they separate. An escalating series of disasters grows from the husband’s fateful decision to hire the wife of an unemployed shoemaker as the caregiver for his elderly Alzheimer’s-stricken father. In Persian with English subtitles. 35mm. (BS) Gene Siskel Film Center http://www.siskelfilmcenter.org/separation
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