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Elena

Documentary, Drama - 2013
Elena
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A Brazilian actress travels to New York in search of her long-lost sister, piecing together fragments of the past while confronting the lasting scars of the Brazilian dictatorship.
Director:
,
Petra Costa
Cast:
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Li An
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Elena Andrade
,
Petra Costa

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Details

Runtime:
82 min
Release date:
11 Apr 2013
Country:
US, BR
Languages:
Portuguese, English
Budget:
$0
Revenue:
$0
Awards:
12 wins & 10 nominations

Top Critics Reviews

fresh:
Elena is at once a portrait, an autobiography and a history of family trauma.
– Robert Everett-Green,
Globe and Mail,
8 Aug 2014
fresh:
The movie becomes a defiant reversal of that sentiment, an act of creation in the face of death.
– J. R. Jones,
Chicago Reader,
7 Jul 2014
fresh:
A type of cinematic performance art, with all the self-consciousness that suggests - a sibling love story that's no less heartfelt for being in the form of a first-person poem.
– Sheri Linden,
Los Angeles Times,
12 Jun 2014
fresh:
Mysterious and hermetic, this memoir is a collage of home movies, photographs, audio recordings and lyrical narration that reframes a troubled family history through a heartbroken lens.
– Steve Dollar,
Wall Street Journal,
5 Jun 2014
fresh:
This haunting and dreamlike cinematic essay is filmmaking at its most personal.
– Frank Scheck,
Hollywood Reporter,
5 Jun 2014
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