An Elephant Sitting Still.
Sure to be remembered as a landmark in Chinese cinema, this intensely felt epic marks a career cut tragically short: its debut director Hu Bo took his life in October 2017, at the age of 29. The protagonist of this modern reworking of the tale of Jason and the Argonauts is teenage Wei Bu, who critic...
| Uniform Title: | Kanopy films.
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| Language: | English |
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In English |
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[place of publication not identified] :
KimStim,
2018.
2018. |
| Series: | Kanopy films.
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (streaming video file) (234 minutes) : digital, .flv file, sound |
| Format: | Electronic Video |
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Sure to be remembered as a landmark in Chinese cinema, this intensely felt epic marks a career cut tragically short: its debut director Hu Bo took his life in October 2017, at the age of 29. The protagonist of this modern reworking of the tale of Jason and the Argonauts is teenage Wei Bu, who critically injures a school bully by accident. Over a single, eventful day, he crosses paths with a classmate, an elderly neighbor, and the bully's older brother, all of them bearing their own individual burdens, and all drawn as if by gravity to the city of Manzhouli, where a mythical elephant is said to sit, indifferent to a cruel world. Full of moody close-ups and virtuosic tracking shots,An Elephant Sitting Stillis nothing short of a masterpiece. Winner of the FIPRESCI Prize at the **Berlin International Film Festival**. *"An act of solemn, disciplined and passionate protest." - A.O. Scott, **New York Times*** |
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| Note: | Title from title frames. Film In Process Record. |
| Participant or Performer: |
Yu Zhang, Yuchang Peng, Uvin Wang |