The Woman with the 5 Elephants

Name: The Woman with the 5 Elephants
Genre: Documentary
Released: July 22, 2011
Duration: 98 min
Rating: 66

2011

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Cinema Guild | Release Date: July 22, 2011 | Not Rated

Summary: The mystery surrounding the life and work of Svetlana Geier, one of the world's greatest translators of Russian literature. (Cinema Guild)

Director: Vadim Jendreyko

Genre(s): Documentary

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 98 min

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Noel Murray

Jul 21, 2011

The Woman With The 5 Elephants isn't flawless; as articulate and fascinating as Geier could be, she was also dry at times. But Jendreyko cleverly parcels out her personal history, and he isn't afraid to break up the talkiness with long silences and luminous images. Read full review

Keith Uhlich

Jul 19, 2011

Jendreyko elegantly sketches in the details of his subject's life and the historical events surrounding her coming-of-age-out of which emerges a fascinating subtext about the malleable powers of language. Read full review

V.A. Musetto

Jul 22, 2011

The film is most effective when Geier, accompanied by a granddaughter, goes to Ukraine to speak at a school. Read full review

Neil Young

Jul 19, 2011

The result is that rare thing in cinema -- an intellectually-stimulating crowd-pleaser. Read full review

Mike Hale

Jul 19, 2011

It's an interesting story, well told, though Mr. Jendreyko overworks some documentary fallbacks: gnarled fingers, the view from a moving train. Read full review

Michelle Orange

Jul 19, 2011

Geier, who died in 2010, speaks on all subjects - from her son's mortal injury to the nature of her various collaborations - with the contemplative, courtly intelligence of her favorite novels. Read full review

Joe Neumaier

Jul 22, 2011

Alas, this learned woman of letters - her expertise became the work of Dostoyevsky, whose major novels Geier nicknames "the five elephants" - is ill served by a trudging approach and dry-as-dust, procedural style. Read full review

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