English title: A Separation
A couple separates and the husband needs to hire someone to look after his Alzheimer's-afflicted father. A serious incident involving the woman he hires leads to criminal charges set upon him.
Effective melodrama. However, as is often the case with this genre, some plot details are contrived and/or strained. For example, the couple's separation's relationship to the whole legal incident does not look as big as the film implies, and if it were, is the film implying that a woman's role is to nurse her husband's invalid father? Maybe I am missing something here. As for the legal aspect, I think that, once it has been established that a push could not send the woman down the stairs, the whole case crumbles. Maybe I am nitpicking or, again, missing some aspect of the drama. Anyway, as I implied in the beginning, overall a good, well-structured melodrama. And very well-acted.
Rating: 65
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