New Zealand drama based on the award-winning novel Of A Boy by Sonya Hartnett. Follows sensitive 11-year-old Adrian (newcomer Demos...
New Zealand drama based on the award-winning novel Of A Boy by Sonya Hartnett. Follows sensitive 11-year-old Adrian (newcomer Demos Murphy), struggling with his fears and anxieties since the disappearance of three kids in his small town. Co-stars Matthew Sunderland (Out of the Blue).
One day Adrian meets Nicole (newcomer Angelina Cottrell), a mysterious, crazy, frightening girl who moves in next door with her little sister and brother. They might just be everything Adrian ever wanted. This is the feature debut from writer/director Daniel Borgman and premiered at the Berlin Film Festival 2013.
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"The Weight of Elephants would make an exquisite photography book. A large, glossy tome that sat on the coffee table and you could flick through dreaming over the perfectly composed, evocative, flare-tinged images."
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Flicks"The setbacks, sorrows and rare joys of a lonely child misfit are charted with sensitivity but also a certain dramatic contrivance in the feature debut of New Zealand director Daniel Borgman."
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Screen Daily
Screen Daily"There’s a core sincerity to the film that’s amplified in Murphy’s emotionally raw performance. His eyes reveal what the title suggests -- that childhood can be freighted with impossible burdens."
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Hollywood Reporter
Hollywood Reporter"I think I've seen a few truly great New Zealand made dramas. Out of the Blue, The Orator, and In My Father's Den have been the absolute stand outs. The Weight of Elephants can take its place beside them. This is a startlingly good film, and in Borgman, we have ourselves a wonderful new film-maker."
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Dominion Post
Dominion PostThe Weight of Elephants | Details
- Runtime
- 83
- Genre
- Drama
- Country of origin
- New Zealand , Denmark, Germany, France
