"A long, sad, moving swan song." KimStim has debuted the full-length official Us trailer for Hu Bo's highly acclaimed Chinese drama An Elephant Sitting Still, which is finally getting a theatrical release starting in March. This is Hu Bo's first & final film, as he tragically took his own life after finishing the film. This premiered at the Berlin Film Festival last year, where it won the Fipresci Prize and a Best First Feature "Special Mention", and it has also played at numerous other festivals including New Directors/New Films in NYC, plus the Sydney and Edinburgh Film Festivals. The film actually runs nearly 4 hours in total, and tells a story spanning one full day in a small rural Chinese town, linking their interactions and following various characters throughout the area. The focus is on bullying and the way people affect each other and treat each other. Starring Yuchang Peng,...
- 1/12/2019
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Premiering nearly a year ago at the Berlin International Film Festival, I caught up with An Elephant Sitting Still at New Directors/New Films and hoped this impressive four-hour epic, the directorial debut drama from the late Chinese filmmaker Hu Bo, would see a U.S. release. Thankfully, KimStim has stepped up and will give it a release this March. Elephant tells the long and winding story of Wei Bu (played by Our Shining Days’ Yuchang Peng), and his classmates Wang Jin and Huang Ling, as they flee to a far-away city after becoming involved with escalated trouble at home. Ahead of a spring release, the U.S. trailer has now arrived.
Our own Zhuo-Ning Su caught Elephant in Berlin (full review) and touched on the tragic loss of the film’s director and how his legacy should impact audiences: “It cheapens the creativity of the filmmaker to say that...
Our own Zhuo-Ning Su caught Elephant in Berlin (full review) and touched on the tragic loss of the film’s director and how his legacy should impact audiences: “It cheapens the creativity of the filmmaker to say that...
- 1/10/2019
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Chinese director Hu Bo’s film “An Elephant Standing Still” has made it’s theatrical debut. The film is the directors only completed feature length film as the director passed in October of 2017. The film stars Yu Zhang Yuchang Peng, and Uvin Wang, as a group of wandering souls all interested in the story of the Elephant that sits and ignores the world.
The film has been previously released in theaters and won the “International Federation of Film Critics Prize” at the 2018 Berlin Film Festival. The film is awaiting a domestic release, a trailer has been previously released.
Synopsis
In the northern Chinese city of Manzhouli, they say there is an elephant that simply sits and ignores the world. Manzhouli becomes an obsession for the protagonists of this film, a longed-for escape from the downward spiral in which they find themselves. Among them is schoolboy Bu, on the run after pushing Shuai down the stairs,...
The film has been previously released in theaters and won the “International Federation of Film Critics Prize” at the 2018 Berlin Film Festival. The film is awaiting a domestic release, a trailer has been previously released.
Synopsis
In the northern Chinese city of Manzhouli, they say there is an elephant that simply sits and ignores the world. Manzhouli becomes an obsession for the protagonists of this film, a longed-for escape from the downward spiral in which they find themselves. Among them is schoolboy Bu, on the run after pushing Shuai down the stairs,...
- 8/24/2018
- by Adam Symchuk
- AsianMoviePulse
"The world is a wasteland..." An international trailer has arrived online for the highly acclaimed film An Elephant Sitting Still, a film by Chinese filmmaker Hu Bo. This is Bo's first & final film, as he tragically took his own life last year after finishing the film. It premiered at the Berlin Film Festival this year, where it won the Fipresci Prize and a Best First Feature "Special Mention", and it has played at numerous other festivals including New Directors/New Films in NYC, plus the Sydney and Edinburgh Film Festivals, and is heading to the Karlovy Vary Film Festival next. The film actually runs nearly 4 hours in total, and tells a story across one day, linking the stories of various characters in one town. The focus is on bullying and the way people affect each other. Starring Yuchang Peng, Yu Zhang, Uvin Wang, and Congxi Li. This brief trailer does have English subtitles,...
- 6/25/2018
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Initially premiering at the Berlin International Film Festival earlier this year, An Elephant Sitting Still is the directorial debut drama from the late Chinese filmmaker Hu Bo. With an epic, nearly four-hour long runtime, Elephant tells the long and winding story of Wei Bu (played by Our Shining Days’ Yuchang Peng), and his classmates Wang Jin and Huang Ling, as they flee to a far-away city after becoming involved with escalated trouble at home.
Alongside Yuchang Peng, the film features Yu Zhang, Uvin Wang, and Congxi Li. Ambitiously told, with fearlessness and relentlessness, An Elephant Sitting Still garnished the Prize of the Fipresci as well as special mention as the Best First Feature while in Berlin. Unfortunately, while An Elephant Sitting Still marks Hu Bo’s directorial debut, it also becomes his last, as Bo took his own life in October.
Our own Zhuo-Ning Su caught Elephant in Berlin (full...
Alongside Yuchang Peng, the film features Yu Zhang, Uvin Wang, and Congxi Li. Ambitiously told, with fearlessness and relentlessness, An Elephant Sitting Still garnished the Prize of the Fipresci as well as special mention as the Best First Feature while in Berlin. Unfortunately, while An Elephant Sitting Still marks Hu Bo’s directorial debut, it also becomes his last, as Bo took his own life in October.
Our own Zhuo-Ning Su caught Elephant in Berlin (full...
- 6/24/2018
- by The Film Stage
- The Film Stage
The trick to getting the most out of the Berlin Film Festival is to dig deep into its stupendous program spanning 400 films across a multitude of sidebars. Premiering in the Forum section which traditionally favors more experimental/radical forms of filmmaking, Chinese writer/director Bo Hu’s feature debut An Elephant Sitting Still is the work of raw, intimidating talent driven by a creative fury that would likely daunt most competition titles. Unmissable for anyone craving the gritty realism and independent spirit of pre-00’s Chinese cinema. Fair warning: this is decidedly not the feel-good movie of the year.
It all begins on an overcast morning in a nondescript city. People young and old are waking up to a new day, although it doesn’t seem like this is something any of them particularly looks forward to. At first we don’t know their names or how they relate to one another,...
It all begins on an overcast morning in a nondescript city. People young and old are waking up to a new day, although it doesn’t seem like this is something any of them particularly looks forward to. At first we don’t know their names or how they relate to one another,...
- 2/16/2018
- by Zhuo-Ning Su
- The Film Stage
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