Plot & Summary
About Elly won the Silver Bear (Best Director) award at Berlin, one of the top three festivals in the world. The film has also won awards at four other lesser festivals (Asia-Pacific, Brisbane, Tribeca, and the International Film Festival of Kerala) and at Iran’s national festival at Fajr. It was Iran’s submission for the best Foreign Film at the 2010 Oscars.What is the film about? As in the case of most Iranian films it has no sex or violence and yet provides clean entertainment for adults. It is a tale of how we view others, however close or distant we are. It’s a tale of value judgments we make in everyday life. Now these value judgments could often be colored by small lies or exaggerations that could leapfrog into greater problems that one could ever imagine.
The story line is basically of a young unmarried woman Elly who joins three families on a vacation to the Caspian Sea coastline of Iran. Elly has been invited by Sepideh to spend a night with the three families, Sepideh being one of the three wives in the group. The only relationship established between the two is that Elly teaches Sepideh’s child at school and that Elly could be paired off with one eligible divorced male in the group if the two get to like each other.
Here is a film that has a very talented cast including Golshifteh Farhani, who plays the pivotal role of Sepideh. It is not just actors that carry the film but the script and direction are noteworthy and entertaining for the entire 2-hour movie.
Rating
8.0/10 1,859 votesPart 1, Part 2
Part 3, Part 4
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