Jeanskynebu the audience applauded

Exoticalot People are voting emotionally.

Sexyloutak Absolutely the worst movie.

Lidia Draper Great example of an old-fashioned, pure-at-heart escapist event movie that doesn't pretend to be anything that it's not and has boat loads of fun being its own ludicrous self.

Movielicker94 THIS REVIEW INCLUDE SPOILERS!!! READ ON YOUR OWN RISK. (I HIGHLY RECOMMEND TO READ THIS AFTER YOU HAVE WATCHED THE MOVIE!)I thought the movie were great. In the first part, the 45 min, I didn't think much about the movie. But when the movie had a turning point and the boy, Arash, was about to drown as well as the disappearance of Elley, it really became interesting. I think this movie shows how hard it's to keep on a lie that have killed another person. It's a movie full of emotion and keep you want to watch more of it, at least after the turning point. I think the morale of the movie is to think about your consequences before you do an action. This is shown through Sepideh (Golshifteh Farahani) and her role throughout the movie. Overall, I thought it was a splendid movie with an awesome plot. This movie is a very typical "not judge the book by it's cover" movie. So as you also see and maybe can learn of not skip a high-rated movie before you have watched it throughout. But, my main reason for writing this review is to ask a question, maybe a FAQ (frequent asked question), and since it wasn't available to do it on the FAQ panel, I thought the best way was to write a review and maybe someone would take a look at it. Anyway, my question is: Why did Spideh decide to be a matchmaker for Elly and Ahmad? Because Spideh obviously knew that Elly had a fiance, Alireza. It's true that she did't wasn't in good terms with her fiance, but that doesn't mean she didn't like him anymore. Because if I have understood it correctly, the call she had in the car was with her fiance, not with her mother, as she told Ahmad. If she could casually talk to him, why being a douche and try to spearate them. Why did she try so hard, by hiding her bag and phone and by lying in the end to Alireza about her wanting to find a new man (which was understandable to her cause she would end up in prison and would be terrible for her family), to end their relationship after they had been together for 3 years. It just doesn't make sense to me. What was her good intention for doing so? Because all I saw was her regret for doing it and it just doesn't make sense. Because obviously it wasn't good for Elly too, so why invite her to someplace she doesn't want to be at? If anyone have an excellent answer to my question, I would really appreciate it. And lastly, thanks for reading my review. ^_^

aarosedi Please feel free to skip reading the text that follows this paragraph even though there are no spoilers... This film is best enjoyed immersing yourself in the film and not knowing anything much apart from the title and the director behind it. The audience gets treated to a fine ensemble of brilliant performers that the 21st-century Iranian cinema has to offer. Farahani, Alidoosti, Zare'i, Azadivar, Hosseini, Haghighi, Maadi, Mehranfar, who all gave top-notch performances in what is very much a character study where the audience is presented the complications that arise when someone introduces a stranger to a close-knit peer group and that someone also hides some info about that person that could get them in trouble, and trouble got to them indeed.They all traveled together as a group for a vacation but there is a misunderstanding regarding the accommodations they have booked, the caretakers thinking they were only staying for one day instead of three, and the owner of the lodging set to use it the day after. They then instead had no choice but to take a dilapidated seaside lodging that they have to clean up themselves. Farhadi inserts in this film his commentary regarding the Iranian society's norms that has been unanimously deemed oppressive to women around the world nowadays, regarding traveling restrictions imposed against unmarried couples and the engaged woman seemingly ALMOST a property of her fiance and have to ask permission for everything she does. The audience sees how the characters react once they realised they have trangressed those rules, the gravity attached to such a situation. And these same characters will also display the same regard and urgency to the things people with Western sensibilities believe in. This is why I believe Farhadi belongs to the group of magnificent cinematic greats these days, juxtaposing these cultural elements to evoke empathy from the non-Iranians. Some of the performers in this movie also figured out in Farhadi's other films: Hosseini and Alidoosti in The Salesman, Maadi, Hosseini and Zare'i in A Separation, and I have yet to see Alidoosti in Fireworks Wednesday and The Beautiful City.One heck of a rollercoaster of emotions, this one. I'm a sucker for these kinds of films. Wish Farhadi continues to make more of these kinds of films.This film is, in every way, an antipodic equivalent to Antonioni's L'Avventura.

nganv-80973 It took me a while to get to know the entire cast because it was my first (in a long time ) iranian movie. But once I got introduced with the cast, and their relationship with each other, it became easier to relate with them. The way they have fun, the excitement of the kind of trip they go on, is so much like us. *Fast forwarding...*I really liked the cinematography, especially in the scene where elly is shown for the last time. We have to see her running, having fun with the kite for excruciating few minutes, while something very terrible is happening behind, but we can't see it, because it's not in the frame. Then suddenly we just see the kite flying, and elly is no longer in the frame, we suddenly know that something terrible has happed to her too. *this is one of the best cinematography I have ever seen, and this is the exact part where I realise how talented the director is and I should watch more of his films.* Now what i liked the most :I like how it was a mystery from the very beginning, but then it was more of a psychological mystery rather than a whodunit. For them to find out what has happened to elly, they need to find out _About elly_(the title ) because only after they figure out how Elly is, they can find out what must have happened that day. But to find out _About Elly_ they really need to figure out what kind of people they are. This is extraordinary.And her fiancé left thinking that Elly never liked him, which is probably true but he never accepted this fact until elly was gone, and sepideh told him so, So he had to accept the bitter truth in the end.And as ahmad said, "bitter ending is better than endless bitterness" The movie is all about this quote.

yassinelkhalloufi I will be happy to give it the worst rating available for the movie that will waste 2 hours of your life waiting for nothing, what keeps me watching is that it has 8.1 * rating, DON'T WASTE YOUR TIME , i registred just to tell you that