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- 2015
- TV-PG
- The Cinema Guild
- 1 h 59 m
- 2015
- TV-PG
- The Cinema Guild
- 1 h 59 m
Summary A group of middle-class friends travel from Tehran to spend the weekend at the seaside. Sepideh invites Elly, who is her daughter's teacher, to travel with the three families in order to introduce her to their recently divorced friend Ahmad, now living in Germany. The next morning, the two women go shopping in the town and Elly says that...
Directed By: Asghar Farhadi
Written By: Asghar Farhadi
- 2015
- TV-PG
- The Cinema Guild
- 1 h 59 m
- 2015
- TV-PG
- The Cinema Guild
- 1 h 59 m
About Elly (2009)
8.3
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Summary A group of middle-class friends travel from Tehran to spend the weekend at the seaside. Sepideh invites Elly, who is her daughter's teacher, to travel with the three families in order to introduce her to their recently divorced friend Ahmad, now living in Germany. The next morning, the two women go shopping in the town and Elly says that...
Directed By: Asghar Farhadi
Written By: Asghar Farhadi
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim
Based on 29 Critic Reviews
87
93% Positive
27 Reviews
27 Reviews
7% Mixed
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
Metascore
Universal Acclaim
Based on 29 Critic Reviews
87
93% Positive
27 Reviews
27 Reviews
7% Mixed
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
It’s breezy, then suspenseful, and gradually, crushingly sad. On its own terms, it’s a perfect film.
This is clearly the work of a master in the making, an artist on the cusp of greatness. Farhadi may be fixated on fibbers, but there’s almost no one working today who makes films so emotionally honest.
User Score
Universal Acclaim
Based on 144 User Ratings
8.3
87% Positive
125 Ratings
125 Ratings
6% Mixed
8 Ratings
8 Ratings
8% Negative
11 Ratings
11 Ratings
User Score
Universal Acclaim
Based on 144 User Ratings
8.3
87% Positive
125 Ratings
125 Ratings
6% Mixed
8 Ratings
8 Ratings
8% Negative
11 Ratings
11 Ratings
It’s a richly imagined drama that gives everyone involved a specific and understandable set of motives for acting the way they do.
Asghar Farhadi's sensibility embodies a combination of empathy and paranoia that's striking considering that the latter is normally driven by self-absorption.
While not equaling the depth of characterization of Farhadi’s previous films, About Elly takes the complexity of his storytelling to a fascinating level. However, the variable quality of the thesping also prevents the pic from being his best work.
Both as writer and director, Farhadi is skilled at depicting the spiraling growth of social malignancies, as duplicity and uncertainties beget confusion, fear and anger. It’s an incisive portrait of a particular society, but it should resonate everywhere.
Farhadi’s gifted storytelling and direction is on show again in a damning look at Iranian society.
Rollercoaster emotions. Superb movie and the acting was perfect. I love it.
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"About Elly" is an Iranian film from master director Asghar Farhadi who with Azad Jafarian co-wrote it. Farhadi, the director of the Academy Award Best foreign film of 2011, The Separation, takes us into the world of young professionals in a country we know very little about and are, of course, surprised as these 30 somethings rent a villa for a weekend in a sea resort far from their homes in Teheran. There is a really good film somewhere in these reels but the viewer will be hard pressed to find it amidst women who look alike and couples where one cannot easily identify who goes with whom. In addition to this, the subtitles and the grating manner of the members of the cast, the film is just too long and could easily have told its story in half of the actual 2 hours it took. I give the film a 6.0 although with the right editing and writing, it could easily have earned much more.
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Read this before you waste your time with this (excruciatingly long) movie! Farhadi, directed this film, and also the (Academy Award) best foreign film of 2011, The Separation. (The Separation was an amazing film.) THIS however, i would highly recommend avoiding to watch. In a word it is dull... There is fantastic acting by all involved, but the story is just so completely non existent, that I can't fathom how any reviewer could rate this movie positively. I felt it my duty as a movie lover to warn people considering watching this, as there are (inexplicably) only positive reviews of this movie.
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Production Company
Dreamlab
Release Date Apr 8, 2015
Duration 1 h 59 m
Rating TV-PG
Awards
International Online Cinema Awards (INOCA)
• 2 Wins & 6 Nominations
Asia Pacific Screen Awards
• 2 Wins & 5 Nominations
Fajr Film Festival
• 4 Wins & 4 Nominations
