An Elephant Sitting Still's reviews
Media reviews
Caimán Cuadernos de Cine
The last shot, one of the most beautiful ones within the recent cinema, culminate this film with a touching serenity, with a infrequent humility.
Screen Daily
It's an impressive achievement (...) Hu paints a picture of existential malaise with such a fine-tuned control of mood, imagery and pacing that the end result resembles a marriage of Jia Zhangke and Bela Tarr.
The Guardian
Hu?s single-minded stylistic focus builds into a panorama of a society with a true moralist?s eye (...) Hu provides no easy resolutions, and evidently found none himself.
The Hollywood Reporter
iT weaves together its narrative threads clearly and sturdily (...) Hu's characters remain very real, and they are never shown as indulgent to the point of being above the banalities of everyday life.
El País
The income is amazing in its form (...) Nevertheless, it's an important issue that we access to this universe through a radically depressed look.