124. Russian director Andrei Zvyagintsev’s “Elena” (2011): The third riveting film from a talented filmmaker who makes any perceptive viewer sit up and enjoy layers of meaning

Andrei Zvyagintsev is one of the most interesting among activefilmmakers today. He has only made three feature films. Each of those three filmsis built, to put it in literary terms, on the scale of a novella rather than anepic novel. Each film delves...