Another fascinating, if also verbose existential drama from acclaimed Iranian filmmaker Asghar Farhadi (“A Separation”), 2009 Silver Berlin Bear winner “About Elly” arrives here. Several couples from ...

In Iranian director Asghar Farhadi’s “About Elly,” a group of Tehran yuppies goes on a beach holiday, kids in tow. The beautiful, rather spoiled Sepideh (Golshifteh Farahani) has persuaded the ...

It’s an irony of the international film scene that arguably the greatest contemporary creator of adult psychological dramas in the classic Hollywood mold comes from a country that views America’s ...

Filmed prior to his Oscar-winning drama “A Separation,” writer-director Asghar Farhadi’s “About Elly” (2009) only recently untangled its foreign-rights distribution issues, and opens Friday at the ...

The film’s director, Asghar Farhadi, would win the Silver Bear for directing, and the film would go on to become Iran’s official Oscar submission for best foreign-language film at the 82nd Academy ...

The movie casts a revealing light on the elaborate culture of deceit that's part and parcel of modern Iranian society. “About Elly,” the fourth feature from talented Iranian helmer-scribe Asghar ...

This pot-boiler takes the viewer by surprise after a slow start, but the start is too long and the surprise too short. In the midst of a jocular college reunion, the young, beautiful and mysterious ...

A taut, involving drama centered around the mysterious disappearance of a young woman, "About Elly" confirms director Asghar Farhadi as a major talent in Iranian cinema whose ability to chronicle the ...