Masterpiece: a scene from 'Elena', which has the taut dramatic structure of a Dostoyevsky parable One of the best reasons to go to any film festival is the thrill of a brilliant but under-promoted ...
Andrei Zvyagintsev’s feature film “Elena” took the Grand Prix for Best Film at the 38th Ghent Film Festival in Belgium. Other winners included Nicolas Provost’s feature film, “The Invader,” (Best ...
'Elena' is a masterpiece set in Moscow that won an award at the Cannes Film Festival and was screened at the Panorama for European Film in Egypt Elena is the third feature film by Russian director by ...
Nathan Silver's second feature follows a newly-qualified nursing assistant navigating life in suburban New York. By Neil Young EDINBURGH — Finding room among an awkwardly dysfunctional family proves ...
The unmistakable sounds of Philip Glass tell you right away that “Elena” is no ordinary Russian melodrama. What’s an American musical score doing here? The break with tradition may seem jarring, even ...
It’s fitting that “Elena,” the new Russian drama from Andrey Zvyagintsev, gains a wider release this particular week. At Cannes 2011, it premiered under the Un Certain Regard banner, where it ...
A Russian friend once defined the Russian temperament with one word: "heavy." That certainly holds for the characters in "Elena," an excellent tale of a Russian family struggling to navigate a world ...
Belgium’s Stenola Productions, behind Joachim Lafosse’s 2022 Cannes Competition player “The Restless” and this year’s San Sebastian’s Golden Shell contender “A Silence,” has boarded “Elena,” written ...
The closer one gets to the border between Haiti and the Dominican Republic, the more dubious it becomes. The two nations’ continuous territorial struggle stems from their contrasting colonial and ...
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