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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.

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

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

There is an abundance of stories for Hogarth to tell.

This Oscar-nominated short is a natural crowd pleaser.

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.

The first part of this film is compelling.

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.

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

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

Almost everywhere in this documentary less would be more.

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