An Elephant Sitting Still (Blu-ray)
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 3 hours, 50 minutes
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: December 10, 2019
- Originally Released: 2018
- Label: Kimstim
Entertainment Reviews:
Despite its melancholia and tonal rigor, An Elephant Sitting Still exudes so much elegance, frame precision and ingenuity. Hu Bo's first and last feature is destined to have a place in cinema.
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Film Inquiry
Rating: 3.5/4 --
While circumstances are claustrophobic and stifling, Bo's movie seems to balance that with strange and surreal impulses of the heart.
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RogerEbert.com
Rating: 4/5 --
If you do not, at least once across the running time, think to yourself, "why is it so LONG?", the film is not doing its job properly.
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Alternate Ending
Rating: 3.5/4 --
It's as if the film was conjured from thin air, gorgeous, elemental, and tortured; Hu's consciousness made manifest and brought into being by sheer force of will.
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From the Front Row
[Hu] has given us a triumph of bold sociopolitical critique and intimate human portraiture, and a reminder that you rarely encounter the one without the other.
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Los Angeles Times
An act of solemn, disciplined and passionate protest.
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New York Times
I wanted to connect with it, but I am the monster who could not get into the four-hour tragic movie.
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FilmWeek (KPCC - NPR Los Angeles)
Product Description:
The late writer-director Hu Bo's debut feature film unfolds over the course of a single day. Four disillusioned residents of a bleak northern Chinese city fixate on the story of an elephant in a zoo in Manzhouli who sits motionless and refuses to eat each day, enigmatically indifferent to the fact of its own existence.