About Elly
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About Elly
[ Madman Entertainment DVD / DVD ]
Release Date: Thursday 13 March 2014
PG Violence & coarse language
When a child goes missing on a holiday weekend, who is to blame?
2012's Oscar winner for best foreign language film, A Separation, introduced a phenomenal new talent to the world in director Asghar Farhadi. The good news is that Farhadi has been making quietly brilliant cinema for over a decade. And these films are slowly making their way onto a wider stage.
Language: Iranian with English subtitles
PG Violence & course language.
"The film's escalating energy, hysteria even, and moral debates will invite comparisons to the hothouse drama of 'A Separation'." Time Out
"Superbly acted, morally challenging, packed with legitimate suspense, this is film-making of a high order." Observer
"Once again, Farhadi has told an ordinary story in an extraordinary way." This is London
"Really it's a picture of loneliness, in a land where speaking together in honesty and sharing the cries of the heart are things you do only in a crisis or an emergency." Financial Times
"Farhadi's films are like moral whodunits, and as Sepideh and her friends gradually unearth the truth, he expertly buffets our sympathies in all directions until the very last shot." Daily Telegraph
"Bursting with energy, this ensemble drama from Iran is raucous, chaotic and packed with strong emotion" Shadows on the wall
*Another shrewdly gauged study of our capacity for deception and self-deception from A Separation's auteur. Emotionally devastating."^ Total Film
"The film's tone is primarily, even exclusively, reflective; observing human behavior simply because humans are interesting." Antagony and Ecstasy
