Third place:
Kenneth Lonergan, Margaret [81 points/11 votes]
Second place:
Bridget O'Connor & Peter Straughan, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (based on the novel by John Le Carré) [112/19]
And your winner...
Asghar Farhadi, A Separation [144/22]
"Asghar Farhadi's A Separation has a fairly small cast of characters whose activities are mostly spread across a couple of apartments and offices, yet it seems to grow larger and larger as you take it in and realize that it constructs a full, richly detailed picture of life in a theocratic bureaucracy out of a string of misunderstandings, slights, and white lies. It demands that you extend sympathetic understanding to every one of its characters, even as it helps you to see the different set of limits each of them has on fully empathizing with the people who are different from them for reasons of gender, income, age or just the way they handle their anger issues (e.g. the out-of-work loser who clearly strikes the more affluent, better-educated characters as a thug can't help overreacting, emotionally and violently, to the condescension that nobody tries to hide from him; the hero is so scrupulously careful about keeping his stronger feelings in check that his marriage is ending because his wife isn't sure that he loves her enough). For all the credit that the direction and the actors deserve for bringing this out, it's all in the scripted foundation. This may be the most outwardly conventional of all the Iranian films that have made an international splash in the last fifteen years or so, but it's one of the most artful." - Phil Dyess-NugentSee the full results.
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