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Zhao Yanguozhang

An Elephant Standing Still

Review: An Elephant Sitting Still Is a Mournful Vision of a World Abandoned

by Christopher Gray
March 3, 2019

The film’s gritty, mundane agonies come to feel like a series of moral tests with genuinely unpredictable outcomes.

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