About Elly

Director: Asghar Farhadi

2009 / 119min / DCP

Nine affluent Iranian former college classmates’ holiday weekend visit to the Caspian Sea takes an unnerving turn when one of the party, Elly, disappears without a trace in this enigmatic, Antonioni-esque thriller from A Separation director Farhadi, featuring Golshifteh Farahani as Sepideh, a young mother in the group who harbors a crucial secret. “This superb, suspenseful film opens as a playful comedy… but by the end has become a moral drama likely to corrode your certainties. The film grows more frightening and compelling as it goes.”—The Village Voice