About Elly
- Golshifteh Farahani: Sepideh
- Taraneh Alidoosti: Elly
- Mani Haghighi: Amir
- Shahab Hosseini Ahmad
- Merila Zarei: Shohreh
- Peyman Moadi: Peyman
- Rana Azadivar: Nassi
- Ahmad Mehranfar: Manouchehr
- Saber Abar: Alireza
About Elly (Persian درباره الی, Darbārehye Elly ), in German-speaking countries under the title Elly ... known, is a feature film by the Iranian filmmaker Asghar Farhadi. The film portrays the Iranian middle class, whose morals he scrutinized carefully.
Action
Ahmad, who has spent several years in Germany and is recently divorced, making holiday in Iran. With some friends, he spends a weekend on the Caspian Sea, where do his friends Elly known that praise her in high tones. After one of the children nearly drowned while playing in the sea, the group noticed that Elly has disappeared.
It is suspected that they may have attempted to save the child. Even after nightfall Elly still has not surfaced. The mood shifts. One makes thoughts about the fact that they could be without goodbye just driven away. Later it comes out that she is already engaged. In the notification of the fiancé, the friends become entangled in lies. Finally, her body is discovered, she is drowned.
Criticism
Jan Schulz- Ojala liked the Tagesspiegel that Farhadi not manage to go with preconceived concepts of its history, but remains open for the development of the substance from himself. The film was " very exciting ". For the time - reviewers Markus Maier interest Elly is " concentrated and stylish ." From the middle of the film lose " in color, but not in intensity. " Barbara Schweizerhof evaluated the work in epd film as " staged sovereign", " dialogue -heavy, but consistently exciting," and without " debunking alarmist gesture ". " If you look closely, knows in the end the Iran a little bit more. " According to the criticism in the Tages-Anzeiger of Thomas Bodmer Elly not quite enough to Farhadi's Nader and Simin - A separation approach, but " goes a long after. " And: ". again and again one is forced as a spectator, to revise the opinion that one has just made , " " A masterpiece of staged subtle glances " is director Farhadi said Jens Hinrichsen of the filmdienst. The two women Golshifteh Farahani and Taraneh Alidousti translated representational highlights. In the second half the plot " something " hanging by because the director confers the figures too little sharpness. " Farhadi's film allows opposing interpretations: It is a cautiously open society that is threatened by regression; but it is also about a misunderstood concept of freedom ( here the criticism is aimed at the Western world ), the other disregarding the wishes -. causes and bondage "
Awards
- Silver Bear, 59th Berlinale 2009
- Simorgh, 27th International Fajr Film Festival 2009: Best Actor, Shahab Hosseini, best director, Asghar Farhadi, Best sound mixing, Hassan Zahedi
- Tribeca Film Festival: Best Film
In addition, the film was shot for the Oscars 2010 in the list of candidates for the nomination for Best Foreign Language Film.