Sadly Over-hyped

This story has more twists and turns than a second-rate soap opera.

It’s sentimental, ridiculously long and only occasionally funny

Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

Asghar Farhadi is one of the most influential foreign Directors today. About Elly, recognized his position in the film lovers of the world.The film starts with a usual family picnic. With a sweet tune, it goes through the fun and troubles we usually have during the picnic. By this time, all the characters are cool and equally imprinted on the audience. But, the sudden and unexpected disappearance of the title character changes the mood of the film. Every person's basic character comes out. All the little lies and made up stories comes back to them. This movie is different from the usual Iranian films. The beauty of an international Independent movie was can be seen.Don't miss this amazing movie. A must watch. #kiduMovie

Awful, boring, slow, disgusting, rubbish movie.There is no story, no twists, nothing interesting.I did not enjoy 1 minutes of this movie.This movie was just made for the sake of making a movie.No purpose, no meaning, nothing to conclude.Stupid story that does not make sense.

A group of friends go to the shore for a long weekend. One of them brings her friend Elly with the intention of introducing her to their divorced friend. About halfway through the weekend, she disappears. There's reason to believe that she may have left without telling anyone, but there's also reason to believe that she may have drowned. As the remaining folks look for her, and further consequences of her disappearance are revealed, cracks in the relationships are revealed and deepen. As with "A Separation", Farhadi takes a genre procedural plot and turns it into a drama about the morality and consequences of our decisions.

At two hours long this is way too drawn out. They could have cut out half an hour and not missed anything. I wish they had left out the Borat style male only dancing. This story covers no new territory, and doesn't bother attempting to entertain. In the end it's a vehicle for delivering some infuriating anti-woman morality lesson that must be the norm inside modern day Iran but is certainly not appropriate for international consumption. The director's camera lingers in sympathy on characters that deserve no sympathy and insists on driving home the point of their victim-hood all the while absolutely blind to the way the characters, director and scriptwriter are victimizing womankind in general and the story's heroine in particular. Zero responsibility assigned to the male characters but they are entitled to huff and puff and hit women and judge them. Go play some beach volleyball...