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About Elly
MEANRANK
83/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #305
- IMDb #476
- Google retired #1136
- Rotten Tomatoes #413
- Metacritic #115
- Letterboxd #331
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- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #74
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #1275
- Metacritic Critics #294
- Metacritic Audience #45
- Criticker #165
- Kinopoisk #1975
- AlloCiné #1018
- Trakt #719
Every rating
Mostly agreed
Lowest is Criticker on 72, highest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 99. Critics average 93, everyone else 80.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →A group of old friends from Tehran take a weekend trip to the Caspian Sea. The trip is organized by one woman who invites her daughter's teacher, Elly, hoping to set her up with a recently divorced friend. A simple lie about Elly's circumstances spirals out of control when she suddenly disappears. The group is thrown into chaos, and their friendships are tested as secrets, guilt, and accusations surface.
Details
- Director
- Asghar Farhadi
- Writers
- Asghar Farhadi, Azad Jafarian
- Studio
- Dreamlab
- Released
- 6 June 2009
- Country
- Iran
- Language
- Persian, German
- Runtime
- 119 min
- Rated
- NR
- Awards
- 1 win, 2 nominations
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Cast
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Awards & nominations
See all 3 →1 win from 3 nominations across 3 ceremonies
| International Submission to the Academy Awards 2010 | International Submission to the Academy Awards | Iran | Nominee |
| Asia Pacific Screen Award 2009 | Best Feature Film | Nominee | |
| Silver Bear 2009 | Best Director | Winner |
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×| International Submission to the Academy Awards | Iran | Nominee |
| Best Director | Winner |
| Best Feature Film | Nominee |