ABOUT ELLY (DARBAREYE ELLY) .World Cinema

This tout, involving drama, centered around the mysterious disappearance of a young woman, confirms director Asghar Farhadi as a major talent, with on unrivaled ability to chronicle the malaise of middle-class Iranian society Working in a highly controlled film industry that hos progressively shut down the most innovative directors over the post three years, Forhadi has miraculously sidestepped the censors in earlier work like FIREWORKS WEDNESDAY In his new film, a joyful party of friends, three married couples with kids plus the newly divorced Ahmad (Shohob Hosseini) and young kindergarten teacher Elly (Taroneh Alidousti)-drive to the Caspian Seo for a three-day holiday. The plan, masterminded by Sepideh, (Golshifteh Forohonil, is to introduce Elly to Ahmad, who’s looking for a new wife Sepideh tells the elderly lady who rents them a big beach house the first lie: that Ahmad and Elly ore newlyweds . Given Iranian social conventions, this is understandable, but it begins a chain that will hove dire consequences.