An Elephant Sitting Still: filmmaker Hu Bo’s bitter indictment of contemporary China

This bitter indictment of life in contemporary China proved a tour-de-force for 28-year-old director and writer Hu Bo. Sadly, the sense of hopeless­ness that permeates the 2018 film is as much a cry for help as it is social comment­ary; Hu took his own life soon after completing it. The work went on to win the best feature film award at the prestigious Golden Horse Film Festival last year.Although An Elephant Sitting Still is not autobiographical, its depiction of existen­tial despair is…

from South China Morning Post https://ift.tt/2PUNOSk