A Separation

I mean, I'll just give my listeners a recommendation.

There's a movie called The Separation, or I think it's called A Separation, rather, which is just one of my favorite movies of all time.

It's so well done.

And that director whose name

I was inspired by a lot of other films.

Like I watched A Separation, which is an Iranian film.

And then I watched Marriage Story.

And those two kind of like really flushed out the idea for me.

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work on is there a particular sort of genre or style of film or even a particular director that you kind of take inspiration from when it comes to your approach for for content

when it comes to films and directors uh there's an Iranian director called Asghar Farhadi so he is it's big in Iran um and he's had his films kind of focus more on like the drama side okay so he can make the mundane look so like just extraordinary basically like um a separation for example which is like one of his best works right he's um he's focusing on a couple that are getting divorced so one guy the the husband he wants to stay with his dad in Iran to look after his elderly father right and then the wife she wants to leave with her daughter to go to America um just for like a better life uh and essentially that like Just that dynamic, the way that he can, for two hours, keep you invested in that story is just incredible.

There's other stuff as well.

But I'm going to drama.

I'm going to go with I'm going to go with A Separation.

A Separation, which could have gone in Oscar nom as well.

This is a five-star masterpiece.

It is a film that I watched kind of going into blind.

And it's this kind of class elements.

It's these different kind of dynamics, especially with the parent that is suffering with Alzheimer's.

uh and it is so powerful so rich uh and a lot more complex than i initially thought it was going to be this is off our um oscars uh fahadis a separation which again was nominated i might have won best international but i know it was nominated for best international and i believe it did

Farhadi would be back.

By this point, he is most famous for winning Best the gauntlet of awards in 2011 for A Separation, including Best Foreign Language Film Oscar.

But he'd be back again with The Salesman in 2016, for which he would win Best Screenplay and his second Oscar.

Everybody Knows in 2018, which nobody liked except for Bill and I.