By Christopher Vourlias. At first glance Elli appears to be a normal young girl living with her single father, spending idle afternoons lazing by a sunlit pool. She also discussed the difficult decision to cast a year-old actor [the pseudonymous Lena Watson] for the lead role, and how she expects viewers to react to her provocative sophomore feature. We never expected anything else. It was Roderick Warich, my co-author, who had the initial idea to do a film about a childlike android with this man, and this relationship.