An Elephant Sitting Still: reviews

What the critics say average 7.9 from 5 outlets

• 9.0 Caimán Cuadernos de CineCarlos Losilla The last shot, one of the most beautiful ones within the recent cinema, culminate this film with a touching serenity, with a infrequent humility. Read
• 8.5 Screen DailySarah Ward 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. Read
• 8.0 The GuardianPhil Hoad 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. Read
• 7.0 The Hollywood ReporterClarence Tsui 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. Read
• 7.0 El PaísJordi Costa The income is amazing in its form (...) Nevertheless, it's an important issue that we access to this universe through a radically depressed look. Read