I expected to love About Elly but the story line just wasn't compelling. It felt slow and the whole movie seems to take place in one setting.
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I expected to love About Elly but the story line just wasn't compelling. It felt slow and the whole movie seems to take place in one setting.
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Elly (Taraneh Alidousti), a young school teacher, has gone on a weekend vacation with a group of thirtysomething professional couples from Tehran.
I expected to love About Elly but the story line just wasn't compelling. It felt slow and the whole movie seems to take place in one setting. A serene mountain ...
About Elly, the third of the writer-director's films to make its way to American theaters, is another unraveling web of secrets, a drama that ...
It's breezy, then suspenseful, and gradually, crushingly sad. On its own terms, it's a perfect film. As usual with Farhadi, the themes sneak up ...
Farhadi is a masterful filmmaker whose films have time and again asked very crucial questions about love, marriage, family, and the society.
It's a documentary for a big audience. It's about the huge success of A SEPARATION, and feelings among Iranian people about the film. There's also the films ...
Farhadi's pacing and tone in this opening act is much like its setting — breezy and joyful, leisurely setting up the group dynamic and ...