Vanished Elephant
A trippy Peruvian mystery clearly inspired by Borges but touched also by North American authors from Chandler to Paul Auster.”
-- John Defore, Hollywood Reporter
The Vanished Elephant
A tantalizing mystery in the vein of The Secret in Their Eyes and Tell No One, The Vanished Elephant follows popular crime novelist Edo Celeste after he receives a cryptic envelope on the eve of the publication of the final installment in his beloved “Felipe Aranda” detective series. The envelope, which contains a series of enigmatic photographs, may be a long-awaited clue to the mysterious disappearance of his fiancée seven years prior. As Celeste descends down a rabbit hole of strange occurrences, stumbling on a steady stream of new clues, his obsession becomes increasingly more complex and dangerous, and the line between the fiction he creates and the reality he lives in quickly blurs.
“A knotty, fascinating puzzle-plot riddled with anagrams, mirrors and doppelgängers that blur the material and the meta."
Jose Teodoro, CINEMA SCOPE
“Fuentes-Leon creates a terrifically moody vibe…the film evolves into a series of increasingly intricate Lynchian mind teasers which are quite clever.”
Joe Bendel, LIBERTAS FILM MAGAZINE
“Unique…mixes common elements found in mysteries and film noir with the rich world of crime fiction and art. Salvador del Solar’s lead performances is stellar and Javier Fuentes-León direction is tight and exciting."
Matt Rorabeck, TORONTO FILM SCENE
"Dripping with intrigue and style, the classic film noir-inspired Vanished Elephant sees director Javier Fuentes-León deliver the audience a mind bending mystery that will have audiences guessing up to the very end."
Kirk Haviland, DORKSHELF
“In its aim to depict a blurred line between fiction and reality, THE VANISHED ELEPHANT is a welcome addition to this oft-unexplored way of storytelling.”
Jonathan Encarnacion, SCREEN RELISH
“A knotty, fascinating puzzle-plot riddled with anagrams, mirrors and doppelgängers that blur the material and the meta."
Jose Teodoro, CINEMA SCOPE
“Fuentes-Leon creates a terrifically moody vibe…the film evolves into a series of increasingly intricate Lynchian mind teasers which are quite clever.”
Joe Bendel, LIBERTAS FILM MAGAZINE
“Unique…mixes common elements found in mysteries and film noir with the rich world of crime fiction and art. Salvador del Solar’s lead performances is stellar and Javier Fuentes-León direction is tight and exciting."
Matt Rorabeck, TORONTO FILM SCENE
"Dripping with intrigue and style, the classic film noir-inspired Vanished Elephant sees director Javier Fuentes-León deliver the audience a mind bending mystery that will have audiences guessing up to the very end."
Kirk Haviland, DORKSHELF
“In its aim to depict a blurred line between fiction and reality, THE VANISHED ELEPHANT is a welcome addition to this oft-unexplored way of storytelling.”
Jonathan Encarnacion, SCREEN RELISH
Genre
Mystery,
Thriller
Runtime
110
Language
Spanish
Director
Javier Fuentes-León
Cast
Salvador del Solar,
Angie Cepeda
FEATURED REVIEW
Bob Strauss, Los Angeles Daily News
Javier Fuentes-León’s second feature, “El Elefante Desaparecido (The Vanished Elephant),” is being described as a hybrid film noir and, like many Latin American stories with surreal elements, a Borgesian labyrinth. It applies here, but I’d also suggest that the thing owes at least as much to Luigi ...
Played at
Fine Arts Theatre 1.24.16 - 1.24.16
Royal 1.25.16 - 1.25.16
Playhouse 7 1.26.16 - 1.26.16
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