The colossal success of A Separation has triggered an interest in director Asghar Farhadi's back
catalogue and now his previous work, from 2009, has come to the UK. It is a really absorbing picture, powerfully acted, disturbing and suspenseful. Like A Separation it challenges the sexual politics of contemporary Iran and further shows how different Farhadi is from the older generation of Iranian masters such as Kiarostami and Makhmalbaf. The points of reference for About Elly are probably more European: Polanski's Knife in the Water, Antonioni's L'Avventura; and Farhadi also has Michael Haneke's beady eye for the dynamics and symptoms of group guilt.
catalogue and now his previous work, from 2009, has come to the UK. It is a really absorbing picture, powerfully acted, disturbing and suspenseful. Like A Separation it challenges the sexual politics of contemporary Iran and further shows how different Farhadi is from the older generation of Iranian masters such as Kiarostami and Makhmalbaf. The points of reference for About Elly are probably more European: Polanski's Knife in the Water, Antonioni's L'Avventura; and Farhadi also has Michael Haneke's beady eye for the dynamics and symptoms of group guilt.
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