ABOUT ELLY

Asghar Faraday’s About Elly tells the mysterious disappearance of a young women Elly a kindergarten teacher .In the beginning of the film we saw the characters joyful journey .In the first part we can see the joyful party of friends in the resort .Elly’s missing gives rise to all sorts of complex issues, of morality and questions of responsibility for tragedy. After the disappearance, film takes a serious tone. Sepideh is blamed by her husband for having invited Elly. It ruins the fruitful relationship of characters .Asghar’s intelligence of direction and screenplay becomes most apparent in the later stage of the film.

Elly, the symbol of upper middle class society of Iran. Through this film Farhadi shares his idea about the problems of women and their marital life . Farhadis cast is uniformly excellent. All of the performances are great. Through the picturisation of modern face of Iran ,About Elly won the prestigious Golden Crow Pheasant award for best film.