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Review: ‘An Elephant Sitting Still,’ Hu Bo’s first and last feature, is a haunting dispatch from northern China By Justin Chang Film Critic March 21, 2019 2:06 PM PT ...
The debut feature from writer and director Hu Bo, An Elephant Sitting Still, caused a sensation when it screened at the 2018 Berlinale. ... It’s my feeling that it doesn’t matter whether it’s a happy ...
An Elephant Sitting Still began with a myth — and ended up becoming a myth itself.Revolving around four characters shaken out of their small town stupor by an enigmatic tale about a lethargic ...
The characters of An Elephant Sitting Still struggle against corruption, poverty, and the total lack of anything resembling a social safety net; and yet the deepest rot eating away at Chinese society ...
As a reader of arts criticism, there’s a decent chance that maybe after discovering John Keats or “Sweetheart of the Rodeo” or maybe, disquietingly, at some more recent point in your life ...
"A long, sad, moving swan song." KimStim has debuted the full-length official US trailer for Hu Bo's highly acclaimed Chinese drama An Elephant Sitting Still, which is finally getting a theatrical ...
Initially premiering at the Berlin International Film Festival earlier this year, An Elephant Sitting Still is the directorial debut drama from the late Chinese filmmaker Hu Bo. With an epic, nearly ...