Festival du Nouveau Cinéma: ‘Elena’ – Beware the Submissive Housewife
Elena Directed by Andrei Zvyagintsev Written by Oleg Negin 2011, Russia In cinema it seems to take quite a lot of pluck to position an elderly couple as main protagonists. Thus the central duo in Elena, a curio of a film directed by Andrei Zvyagintsev (The Return) is refreshingly senior – demure and wrinkled – …