Review: 'An Elephant Sitting Still,' Hu Bo's first and last feature, is a haunting dispatch from northern China
"Another lousy day begins," a man growls near the start of "An Elephant Sitting Still," and he doesn't know how right he is. This extraordinary, overpoweringly bleak movie, a first feature from the Chinese writer-director Hu Bo, plays out over a single day that will grow steadily worse for four people whose slow, meandering paths occasionally intersect.
Misery may love company, but these individuals seem most defined by the intensity of their isolation - a spiritual condition that follows them out of their dim, squalid apartments and into the sparsely populated streets of the city they are unfortunate to
