An immersive dive into an offbeat and murky corner of modern Argentine life.

~ Owen Van Spall -

An immersive dive into an offbeat and murky corner of modern Argentine life.

~ Owen Van Spall -

Almost everywhere in this documentary less would be more.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Almost everywhere in this documentary less would be more.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

The film’s an unashamedly full-on exercise in manipulating your emotions, giving you an event every five minutes and keeping Kleenex in business.

~ Jeff Robson -

The film’s an unashamedly full-on exercise in manipulating your emotions, giving you an event every five minutes and keeping Kleenex in business.

~ Jeff Robson -

The film is at its strongest when it uses simple images.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

The film is at its strongest when it uses simple images.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

The film’s strength lies in its approach to capturing two different worlds and establishing, at a visual level, a sense of the culture clash that affects different family members in different ways.

~ Jennie Kermode -

The film’s strength lies in its approach to capturing two different worlds and establishing, at a visual level, a sense of the culture clash that affects different family members in different ways.

~ Jennie Kermode -

The first part of this film is compelling.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

The first part of this film is compelling.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Everything about the film seems to fit a purpose, and Van Sant's purpose is to show that we can never understand the reasons why.

~ Scott Macdonald -

Everything about the film seems to fit a purpose, and Van Sant's purpose is to show that we can never understand the reasons why.

~ Scott Macdonald -

This Oscar-nominated short is a natural crowd pleaser.

~ Jennie Kermode -

This Oscar-nominated short is a natural crowd pleaser.

~ Jennie Kermode -

There is an abundance of stories for Hogarth to tell.

~ Jennie Kermode -

There is an abundance of stories for Hogarth to tell.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Merrick’s history, with its tragedies and triumphs, breaks the barrier between a life less ordinary and a horror comic.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

Merrick’s history, with its tragedies and triumphs, breaks the barrier between a life less ordinary and a horror comic.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

Doillon is wonderfully adept and natural, and it's really her performance that makes the film compelling.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Doillon is wonderfully adept and natural, and it's really her performance that makes the film compelling.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Despite its grey, flat light and general melancholy punctured by menace, An Elephant Sitting Still is, by the end considerably more optimistic than it first appears about humanity.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Despite its grey, flat light and general melancholy punctured by menace, An Elephant Sitting Still is, by the end considerably more optimistic than it first appears about humanity.

~ Amber Wilkinson -