About Elly (2009)

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.

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.

I recommend every film lover in the world watch this masterpiece by Asghar Farhadi. Not only the story makes everyone terrified, but also the actors perform so well.

About Elly is yet to be another masterpiece from Farhadi. It is a terrific drama filled with moral consequences and it almost works like a thriller. The core of the story is that how secrets affect anyone's life. The casts are all around superb. Amazing!

Rollercoaster emotions. Superb movie and the acting was perfect. I love it. Watch it here for free: ****/watch-260246-About-Elly-online-free

"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.

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.