Elena

Winner of Cannes’ Un Certain Regard Special Jury Prize, this suspenseful thriller punctuated by class warfare in Putin's Russia. Spouses Vladimir and Elena share his expensively decorated glass and chrome Moscow apartment. He's a virile, wealthy businessman in his 60s; she's his dowdy former nurse who "married up." Estranged from his own wild-child daughter, Vladimir openly resents his wife's hapless son. But when a sudden illness threatens Elena's potential inheritance, she must hatch a desperate plan. Features a haunting Hitchcockian score by Philip Glass. With subtitles. (Andrei Zvyagintsev; Russia; 2011; 109 min)






