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Exit Elena

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Original title: Exit Elena
Year: 2012
Running time: 72 min.
Country: United States
Director: Nathan Silver
Screenwriter: Nathan Silver, Kia Davis
Cast: Lawrence Balin, Jim Chiros, Kia Davis, Christopher Friedlich, Gert O'Connell, Cindy Silver, Nathan Silver, Barbara White
Music: Washington Phillips
Cinematography: David Dahlbom
Genre: Comedy. Drama | Independent Film (US)
Synopsis: With no place to call home, 19-year-old Elena takes a job as a live-in aide. She finds herself thrust into the middle of a family in crisis: all the things that go on between a father, grandmother, mother, and cat. Eventually, Elena strikes something of a balance though... That is, until the prodigal son returns home. Placing fictional characters alongside real people, 'Exit Elena' is shot through with all the rough edges inherent to family life and home movie form.

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Awards: 2013: BAFICI: Official Selection

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Critics' reviews

"A layered and hilarious look at the dynamics of family, relationships, and need."

Christopher Bell: IndieWire
"Nathan Silver's film is a quiet and affecting micro-budgeted drama, its condensed frame evoking the claustrophobic feeling of the household it examines."

Slant
"Silver locates the ordinary madness bubbling just beneath the surface of his own life, and flickers of lunacy abound."

Calum Marsh: Village Voice
"Using mostly amateur performers and improvised dialogue, Mr. Silver has created a profoundly awkward riff on dysfunction that’s uneventful but not unrewarding."

Jeannette Catsoulis: The New York Times
"[A] claustrophobically discomfiting but quizzically comic study of social unease and embarrassment."

Neil Young: The Hollywood Reporter

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