About Elly (2009)
(Darbareye Elly)
Country: IR/FR
Technical: col 119m
Director: Asghar Farhadi
Cast: Golshifteh Farahani, Shahab Hosseini, Taraneh Alidoosti
Synopsis:
A group of friends from Tehran takes the primary school teacher of one of their children on holiday with them to the Caspian coast for the weekend. Their plans to make a match with one of their number, a divorcé on a visit from Germany, are compounded by layers of secrecy, and fate plays an unexpected hand in events.
Review:
From the opening shots in a car passing through a tunnel, Farhadi creates an atmosphere of foreboding that is only increased when the protagonists find there is no villa available and they have to make do with a poorly furnished and dirty beachside house. As in his other films, everything is about confrontations between characters, where cultural differences seem to evaporate or take on only peripheral significance, just as our essential sameness is brought home. Acting, writing, and deceptively fine-tuned direction combine to produce a powerful film drama that transcends its arguable roots in Antonioni's L'Avventura.
(Darbareye Elly)
Country: IR/FR
Technical: col 119m
Director: Asghar Farhadi
Cast: Golshifteh Farahani, Shahab Hosseini, Taraneh Alidoosti
Synopsis:
A group of friends from Tehran takes the primary school teacher of one of their children on holiday with them to the Caspian coast for the weekend. Their plans to make a match with one of their number, a divorcé on a visit from Germany, are compounded by layers of secrecy, and fate plays an unexpected hand in events.
Review:
From the opening shots in a car passing through a tunnel, Farhadi creates an atmosphere of foreboding that is only increased when the protagonists find there is no villa available and they have to make do with a poorly furnished and dirty beachside house. As in his other films, everything is about confrontations between characters, where cultural differences seem to evaporate or take on only peripheral significance, just as our essential sameness is brought home. Acting, writing, and deceptively fine-tuned direction combine to produce a powerful film drama that transcends its arguable roots in Antonioni's L'Avventura.
(Darbareye Elly)
Country: IR/FR
Technical: col 119m
Director: Asghar Farhadi
Cast: Golshifteh Farahani, Shahab Hosseini, Taraneh Alidoosti
Synopsis:
A group of friends from Tehran takes the primary school teacher of one of their children on holiday with them to the Caspian coast for the weekend. Their plans to make a match with one of their number, a divorcé on a visit from Germany, are compounded by layers of secrecy, and fate plays an unexpected hand in events.
Review:
From the opening shots in a car passing through a tunnel, Farhadi creates an atmosphere of foreboding that is only increased when the protagonists find there is no villa available and they have to make do with a poorly furnished and dirty beachside house. As in his other films, everything is about confrontations between characters, where cultural differences seem to evaporate or take on only peripheral significance, just as our essential sameness is brought home. Acting, writing, and deceptively fine-tuned direction combine to produce a powerful film drama that transcends its arguable roots in Antonioni's L'Avventura.