About Elly (2009)

n my opinion it was a great movie with some interesting elements, even though having some plot holes and the ending probably was just too messy and crammed together, but still fun to watch and not your casual movie that is similar to all other ones.

Great story, amazing characters, superb action, enthralling cinematography. Yes, this is something I am glad I spent money on.

It's a good bad... and worth a popcorn matinée. While it's easy to lament what could have been...

The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

This film is incredible. It throws you into this group of friends that you immediately feel part of and the fast pace makes it even more exciting without even having to go with a big plot. The movie really takes it time to tell this story without rushing it and the non-chalant acting fits the film perfectly, it's quite intriguing.The camera movements give the film the action to prevent it from being boring and it achieves this perfectly. You can quite lose yourself while watching the movie.A simple plot and the excellent making of the film complement each other and is definitely a must-see for fans of great dialogues and fellow aestheticians.

Awful, boring, slow, disgusting, rubbish movie.There is no story, no twists, nothing interesting.I did not enjoy 1 minutes of this movie.This movie was just made for the sake of making a movie.No purpose, no meaning, nothing to conclude.Stupid story that does not make sense.

My first Farhadi. A really good experience. There's a fine attention to character and detail in this. The rhythms are impeccable, the setting perfect in its almost mundane beauty, the woebegone exceptional.About Elly is mostly concerned with how, and not who or why. It's an attempt to blame a little bit of everyone - Iranian culture and society - as opposed to just one person. What does it mean to be a single woman in Iran at this point in one's life? This can all be a bit too formal. Its revelations are not so much exemplary as finely judged and formed. It's quite good, not great.

At two hours long this is way too drawn out. They could have cut out half an hour and not missed anything. I wish they had left out the Borat style male only dancing. This story covers no new territory, and doesn't bother attempting to entertain. In the end it's a vehicle for delivering some infuriating anti-woman morality lesson that must be the norm inside modern day Iran but is certainly not appropriate for international consumption. The director's camera lingers in sympathy on characters that deserve no sympathy and insists on driving home the point of their victim-hood all the while absolutely blind to the way the characters, director and scriptwriter are victimizing womankind in general and the story's heroine in particular. Zero responsibility assigned to the male characters but they are entitled to huff and puff and hit women and judge them. Go play some beach volleyball...