‘A Separation’ Director Asghar Farhadi Plea for Peace

Amid hullabaloo about Angeline Jolie's leg, the high-flying exploits of Circus du Soleil, and Octavia Spencer's tearful trip to the podium was a speech that actually has some import beyond the rarified world of Tinsel Town. When Iranian director Asghar Farhadi accepted the best foreign language award for " A Separation ," -- which, by the way, is a masterpiece — he inserted himself in an ...