A Separation: Breaking Up Is Hard to Do. Issue 1 (1st January 2020)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Yanof, Judith A.
• Is Part Of: Psychoanalytic study of the child. Volume 73:Issue 1(2020)
• Page Start: 172
• Page End: 181
• Publication Date: 2020-01-01
• Subjects: Child analysis -- Periodicals; Child Psychiatry; Psychology, Child; Psychoanalysis; Enfants -- Psychanalyse; Child analysis; Psychoanalyse; Kinderen; Kinderanalyse; Aufsatzsammlung; Periodicals; Periodicals; 155.4; 616.89
• DOI: 10.1080/00797308.2020.1690897
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0079-7308

Abstract

ABSTRACT: A Separation is the 2011 award-winning film by Iranian writer-director Asghar Farhadi. Set in modern-day Tehran, the film is about an upper-middle class couple who are separating after 14 years of marriage. The filmmaker gives a nuanced portrayal of the complex dynamics in this family and, in particular, how the struggles of the adults painfully affect their 11-year old daughter, Termeh. A Separation is not formally told through the eyes of the child, however, the film's action and visual impact create in the audience a set of intense emotional reactions which powerfully convey Termeh's internal upheaval.