If Fellini had developed a sense of humour and had directed a film about a 1920's serial damsel in distress this would be the result.
This was shown at the Brisbane International Film Festival as part of "Czech Gothic", but it was anything but Gothic. This is one of those films, like "The Umbrellas of Cherbourg" which are about the pure joy of the cinema. This is not one of those dreary, pretentious films you expect from Europe. It's been nearly 2 hours since I saw it and I'm still grinning.
Other people have written about the plot, so I'll just mention some highlights.
The comic characters can only speak in speech bubbles, which are treated as real objects, in one scene they are moved around so the court reporter can read them.
A cow's nightmare of being bitten by gadflies, is altered to the cow lying on a hammock, on a beautiful day. The camera pans out, and we find that a string quartet is playing for the cow's amusement.
After demolishing one apartment. The evil superman breaks into the neighbors apartment, by pulling their phone through the wall, sits down at their piano and starts to play Mozart.
Czech it out.
This was shown at the Brisbane International Film Festival as part of "Czech Gothic", but it was anything but Gothic. This is one of those films, like "The Umbrellas of Cherbourg" which are about the pure joy of the cinema. This is not one of those dreary, pretentious films you expect from Europe. It's been nearly 2 hours since I saw it and I'm still grinning.
Other people have written about the plot, so I'll just mention some highlights.
The comic characters can only speak in speech bubbles, which are treated as real objects, in one scene they are moved around so the court reporter can read them.
A cow's nightmare of being bitten by gadflies, is altered to the cow lying on a hammock, on a beautiful day. The camera pans out, and we find that a string quartet is playing for the cow's amusement.
After demolishing one apartment. The evil superman breaks into the neighbors apartment, by pulling their phone through the wall, sits down at their piano and starts to play Mozart.
Czech it out.