A relentlessly exquisite film, intricately detailed in both sound and image, subtly marrying live-action, stop-motion, and even digital animation. Nobody makes films like the Quay Brothers — decadent, finicky, and set in aspic — not even their great cinematic papa, Svankmajer, who is more preoccupied with the world’s messy meatiness. The Quays prefer the studied, the arcane, and the mechanical, and their fairy tales, hyper-referential though they are, are unlike anything else in cinema today.
My full review at Reverse Shot.
by Leo Goldsmith | Source: Zeitgeist Films DVD Screener
17 Nov 2006 12:13 PM | Submit Comment
