From a repressed industry, Iranian stays sympathetic to all his characters At the start of “A Separation,”the finest film you’ll see this month, a woman and her husband sit side by side but distinctly not together. We’re in a Tehran magistrate’s courtroom, an environment with the vague, drab air of a waiting area that could be anyplace, any bureaucratic limbo.

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Iranian director Asghar Farhadi keeps an open mind