Elena (2012 film)

Elena is a Brazilian film directed by Petra Costa and produced by Busca Vida Filmes. It is based on the life of the actress Elena Andrade, Petra Costas older sister.

She said goodbye with a modest present a shell. If you ever miss me, put you ear to the shell so we can talk, Elena tells her little sister,years her junior. Petra, at just 7, would listen over and over again to that shell in the weeks to come. Months, then years, then two decades passed. Petra was already an actress and filmmaker when she returned to New York in search of Elena, where she decided to film her own loneliness and longing for her sister.Elena is a film about the persistence of memories, the irreversibility of loss, the effects of her sisters absence on a 7yearold girl, emotions which Petra refers to as inconsolable memories. Gradually, the pain and grievance turn to water, they dissolved into memory, says the director, both actress and biographical character in her film. ........

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