Elena
- heavy
- slow-burn
- intimate
Heavy, slow-burn, measured documentary / drama, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, measured.
How every film is hand-scored →Petra heads to New York in search of her older sister after a long time of being separated. They are both movie actresses and heirs of the wounds of the Brazilian dictatorship. But Petra has only a few clues: home movies, newspaper clippings, a diary...
Our read · Elena (2013) reads as a heavy, slow-burn, inventive documentary · drama entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, nihilistic in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
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The shape of Elena
What watching it is actually like.
“You want an intimate sister-ghost memoir pieced from home movies.”
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The reading.
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