Q & A with ELENA Filmmaker Andrey Zvyagintsev, recorded May 16, 2012, at a screening of the film at Film Forum

Summary: ELENA: From the acclaimed director of THE RETURN comes a film noir fueled by class warfare in Putin’s new Russia. Sixtyish spouses Vladimir and Elena share his expensively decorated glass and chrome Moscow apartment. He’s a virile, wealthy businessman; she’s his dowdy former nurse who “married up.” Estranged from his own wild-child daughter, Vladimir openly resents his wife’s ne’er do well son and family. But when a sudden illness threatens Elena’s potential inheritance, she must hatch a desperate plan. This stylish, suspenseful domestic thriller is punctuated by Philip Glass’s entrancing, Hitchcockian music. This podcast is a recording of the Q & A with ELENA Filmmaker Andrey Zvyagintsev, recorded May 16, 2012, at a screening of the film at Film Forum