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Verhoeven and cinematographer Jan De Bont create a beautiful and thick atmosphere full of surreal and sickening sexual imagery, this really pulls you into the story, you don't want to watch, but you can't turn yourself away.
The film doesn't feature any brutal murders as many Giallo's do, but this is made up for with a surreal atmosphere and a plot just about confusing enough to remain interesting for the duration.
Another demonstration of Kurosawa's genius, his first colour film is a darkly surreal look into the tragic lives of Tokyo slum dwellers, essentially a series of interweaving vignettes depicting several groups of people eking out a perilous existence in a harsh and uncaring post-war shanty town.
The occasionally dark moments such as Bill being supposedly haunted by a curse and Ben waking up in a bizarre village are two examples of the show taking a surreal, dark turn, that help add a little depth.
Just saw this at the 2003 Vancouver International Film Festival and it was funny as hell and a bit surreal.
The animation is nice, and the use of color, in spite of the usually realistic drawing style, makes it more open to do the smooth transitions and other surreal imagery.
This is what a movie should be when trying to capture the essence of that which is very surreal.
Awesome sweeping views of various comic pages and surreal images of Herge's dreams.
Like Thompson's book this movie creates a dark and surreal world where passion overcomes logic and the double cross is never far at hand.
He combines the erotic (alternating between showing full-frontal nudity and leaving somethings left to the imagination) and the surreal seamlessly.
It's a somehow surreal, very poetic, and a little bizarre movie, with a lot of strange characters and strange incidents.
There are of course some very effective, grotesquely surreal scenes (mainly involving the sister Zelda, likely more of a creep-out for kids if they see the film), and the casting in some of the roles is dead-perfect.
Eye-popping costumes and sets (yes B&W) add to the surreal, dreamlike quality of the entire film.
Franco proves, once again, that he is the prince of surreal & erotic cinema.
Despite all the danger, you just can't take everything very seriously--it's just too fun and the whole episode seems very surreal.
There's also some great F/X, a very surreal dream sequence, and a fairly original plot.
For anyone who has only seen Disney Productions beautifully animated version of 'Beauty & The Beast', or even Jean Cocteau's surreal fairy tale vision will be quite taken aback by this 1975 French (but with a director from Poland) version.
It's wacky, funny, violent, surreal, played out in a madman's head, and definitely not your usual comedy.
Don't listen to the prissy critics who are probably bitter gamers still sore from the roasting Silverman infamously gave them at Spike TV Video Game Awards a couple of months ago, "The Sarah Silverman" is wonderfully bizarre, surreal, immature, ridiculous and would fit rather nicely in a Adult Swim line-up.
The Glen or Glenda-esque technique of juxtaposing stock footage for surreal effects works well in the film and is kept to a minimum.
The story was entirely surreal, but nonetheless great!
It's a mournful, inspired, surreal masterpiece that does not deserve to be neglected.
It is strange and surreal and not altogether a completely comprehensible yarn... yet it never loses you.
Judy Maier's narration was so surreal but simultaneously heart wrenching, it made me feel what the main character felt.
Inspired in the comic books of Sam Kieth, "The Maxx " is very faithful to the material in what it was inspired , not only in the story but also in the graphic style ,that look like the pages of the comic ,giving this show a surreal and unique appearance .
The movie is surreal and surpassing in beauty.
The filmmaker creates a few surreal dream sequences that are borderline pretentious but it is fun to see how hard he tries to put this film above your average chicks-in-chains flick.
There's the danger with the critic/philosopher Slavoj Zizek with his film, directed by Sophie Fiennes, which takes together a wonderful amalgam of silent, horror, sci-fi, surreal and other contemporary thrillers together to make his points ofr Freudian comparisons to overload.
It's also best if you don't question the intricacies of the premise and just take it as a descent into madness, because it's pretty trippy surreal at times.
I really can say I felt the movie in its right essence where the mind games from dreamy reality enter into the surreal aspect of future faced by Tom Cruise.
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