And in October 2017, a Chinese novelist and filmmaker named Hu Bo took his own life shortly after completing “An Elephant Sitting Still ... The connections between art and life are never ...

One of the reasons “An Elephant Sitting Still” is so absorbing is ... These flowing, uninterrupted shots may induce in devoted art-house-goers a twinge of auteur recognition.

My favorite moments with her were spent sitting ... and Wanjovu (Elephant). She did her best to keep my young mind occupied even through the horrors of the Idi Amin 1979 war, painting a beautiful ...

It’s tempting to think of “An Elephant Sitting Still” as a suicide note written with blood in a dirty patch of hard snow. Hard to sit through and impossible to forget, this torpid four-hour ...

By A.O. Scott The much-talked-about elephant in Hu Bo’s “An Elephant Sitting Still” never appears onscreen, but it isn’t an imaginary beast. The sedentary pachyderm is rumored to live in ...

29-year-old filmmaker Hu Bo killed himself after finishing his debut, but the four-hour masterpiece he left behind will resonate for ages. It’s tempting to think of “An Elephant Sitting Still ...