A Separation

Screening as part of The Divorced Women’s Film Festival curated by writer Haley Mlotek for the release of her new memoir “No Fault: A Memoir of Romance and Divorce”. 

The screening will be introduced by Haley Mlotek and a special guest. 

“Every time I’ve remembered watching A Separation, the 2011 film written and directed by Asghar Farhadi, I’ve thought of its final scene, which hangs on an incredible balance of long silence and brilliant performance. This is perhaps one of the very best movies ever made about the tangible, material needs a divorce brings to the surface of a family, and the tangle of impossible demands that those needs must attend to.” —Haley Mlotek

Set in contemporary Iran, A SEPARATION is a compelling drama about the dissolution of a marriage. Simin wants to leave Iran with her husband Nader and daughter Termeh. Simin sues for divorce when Nader refuses to leave behind his Alzheimer’s-suffering father. Her request having failed, Simin returns to her parents’ home, but Termeh decides to stay with Nader. When Nader hires a young woman to assist with his father in his wife’s absence, he hopes that his life will return to a normal state. However, when he discovers that the new maid has been lying to him, he realizes that there is more on the line than just his marriage.

Read more about NO FAULT here. 

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Haley Mlotek is a writer, editor, and organizer. Her work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, The Nation, Bookforum, The Paris Review, Columbia Journalism Review, Vogue, Elle, Harper’s Bazaar, Hazlitt, and n+1, among others. She is a founding member of the Freelance Solidarity Project in the National Writers Union, teaches in the English and Journalism departments at Concordia University, and is the editorial lead at Feeld. Previously, Mlotek was the deputy editor of SSENSE, the style editor of MTV News, the editor of The Hairpin, and the publisher of WORN Fashion Journal.

*Winner of the Best Foreign Film Academy Award – 2012