{"id":9737,"date":"2015-06-01T17:02:36","date_gmt":"2015-06-01T21:02:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/?p=9737"},"modified":"2015-06-01T17:02:36","modified_gmt":"2015-06-01T21:02:36","slug":"other-peoples-parties-i-review-about-elly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/2015\/06\/other-peoples-parties-i-review-about-elly.html","title":{"rendered":"Other People’s Parties: I review “About Elly”"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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It\u2019s easy to make \u201cAbout Elly\u201d sound simple. The film (made in 2009 but newly arrived on these shores) from Iranian director Asghar Farhadi, who gave us 2011\u2019s Oscar-winning divorce drama \u201cA Separation,\u201d is about a group of college friends who go off for a vacation by the sea. They bring along Elly (Taraneh Alidoosti), the teacher of one of the friends\u2019 daughters, for reasons that aren\u2019t entirely clear.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

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When tragedy strikes, the friends must try to figure out who Elly really is. If they can figure out her nature\u2014hero or villain, unfaithful woman or frightened victim\u2014they can figure out what happened that terrible day by the sea.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Part of what makes \u201cAbout Elly\u201d so haunting is that it\u2019s about three overlapping attempts to play existential detective: to bring order from chaos, and to transform painful events in our lives from unresolved misery to puzzles we can solve with enough hard work, and thereby to get closure.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

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