Quickies for March 2013

Elena (2011) ✭✭✭✭Elena demands a little patience from the viewer. It starts quite slowly, with a seemingly interminable shot of tree branches, but its world soon evolves into a captivating, hypnotic environment. Set in present day Moscow, this austere morality play proves that Russians have completely embraced capitalism and self-interest as an all consuming lifestyle. Relative newcomer Nadezhda