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THE 2013 HAMMER TO NAIL AWARDS – Hammer to Nail — Fri, 03 Jan 2014 15:15:29 +0000

[…] 12. Exit Elena (Nathan Silver, 29 points/6 mentions) — Nathan Silver’s work has quickly evolved from the wonderfully arch, icy control of his 2008 short Anecdote. He started to loosen the reins in his first feature, The Blind, and in Exit Elena he has embraced a very different style, riffing on Cassavetes. Silver lets his scenes play out loose and conversational, as twitchy camerawork underplays his characteristic, painterly compositions. Like in Anecdote, a principled young woman is confronted with the unbearable banalities and hypocrisies of the real world: in this case, a caretaker hired by a middle-aged couple to look after an elderly parent. Silver buoys his weighty subject matter with a fantastic comedic performance by his mother, Cindy Silver, as Elena’s relentlessly meddling employer. The core of the film is an archetypal battle of wills between Cindy, with her need to connect, and Elena—played with quiet intensity by co-writer Kia Davis—who is determined to be left alone. (Paul Sbrizzi) Read: HTN REVIEW […]

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THE 2012 HAMMER TO NAIL AWARDS – Hammer to Nail — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 16:28:30 +0000

[…] Dead Man’s Burden (Jared Moshe) The End of Love (Mark Webber) Exit Elena (Nathan Silver) [HTN review] Fourplay (Kyle Henry) [HTN reviews of Fourplay: Tampa and Fourplay: San Francisco and A […]

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