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Elena | Hot Docs 2013 Review
Float On: Costa Laments Sister In Intimate Portrait Petra Costa has been trying to process the suicide of her older sister for over two decades now. The young docu director’s first feature, Elena, is
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Nicholas Bell’s Top Ten Films of 2012: Strong Year for U.S. Indie – DuVernay, Batmanglij & Zobel Among Picks 10-6
10. Elena – Dir. Andrei Zvyagintsev (Russia) Of my theatrical releases, two of these made waves in 2011 on the festival circuit, such as Russian auteur Andrei Zvyagintsev’s third film, Elena (the 2012 Los
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Elena | Review
A Touch of Class: Zvyagintsev’s latest slow burn reaches a masterful boil. Over the past decade, one of the most celebrated new filmmakers to come out of Russia is Andrei Zvyagintsev, with his highly
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Top 3 Critic’s Picks In Theaters this May: Zvyagintsev’s Elena, Trier’s Oslo, August 31st and Anderson’s Moonrise Kingdom
U.S. indie, foreign and documentary films typically take a back seat in the month of May, as major studios offer a weekly flurry of tentpole items that clog up the space, but May is
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Inside the 2011 Cannes Film Festival Day 10: 21 Andrei Zvyagintsev’s Elena
Saving the best for last, it was nice to watch a world premiere for a film that had already won an award (the jury, who had seen the film before handing out the night’s
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"Ron and I wanted to make a film that looked at what it means to be an outsider and we wanted to explore what it takes to reach out to someone whose life is very removed from your own."
