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Surviving Life: Theory and Practice (Prezit svuj zivot:teorie a praxe)
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Dreaming of a mysterious girl (Issova), Evzen (Helsus) is keen to return to this topsy-turvy world, where bears run around with hard-ons, dog-headed businessmen bang poodles on the street and lotto and cinema tickets are often one and the same. And where beautiful women in red will happily bring you back to their place after a little mistaken identity. And so it is that Evzen does everything in his power to stay for as long as he can in the land of nod…
THE VERDICT: With his trademark animation married to a relatively accessible flight of fancy, legendary 77-year-old Czech filmmaker Jan Svankmajer’s supposed swansong is a surrealist marriage of Terry Gilliam credits and Gianni Di Gregorio’s wry and wrinkled skirt-chasing. In many ways, it’s just Svankmajer’s imagination running away with him, once again, Surviving Life being a film full of sly symbolism and blatantly bonkers motifs. Fans will undoubtedly love it, but the uninitiated will run a mile from the DIY cut-out animation. And the 40-foot chickens.
Review by Paul Byrne
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