From a surreal paradise a shower of oil revives the thirsty cars and creatures..
C.H. David
United Kingdom
Is it worth your time? If you like your cinema to feel like a fever dream from 1936, yes. If you need a plot that makes sense or characters you can actually relate to, you are going to hate this. It’s barely a movie. It’s more like a weird, beautiful experiment that someone found in a dusty attic. Len Lye clearly wasn'...
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Len Lye
Eduardo Notari
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"Is it worth your time? If you like your cinema to feel like a fever dream from 1936, yes. If you need a plot that makes sense or characters you can actually relate to, you are going to hate this. It’s barely a movie. It’s more like a weird, beautiful experiment that someone found in a dusty attic. Len Lye clearly wasn't interested in making a normal film. The whole thing starts with this oil shower. It’s supposed to be life-giving, I guess? But it looks more like a mechanical baptism. Watching ..."
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