Review: `An Elephant Sitting Still,´ Hu Bo´s first and last feature, is a haunting dispatch from northern China
(LA Times Movies)

`Another lousy day begins,` a man growls near the start of `An Elephant Sitting Still,` and he doesn´t know how right he is. This extraordinary, overpoweringly bleak movie, a first feature from the Chinese writer-director Hu Bo, plays out over a single day that will grow steadily worse for four...