Little Otik (2000)
(Otesánek)
Country: CZ/GB/JAP
Technical: col 131m
Director: Jan Svankmajer
Cast: Veronika Zilková, Jan Hartl, Jaroslava Kretschmerová, Pavel Novy
Synopsis:
The dreams of a lonely girl in an apartment block of having a playmate look like being answered when her childless neighbours finally conceive. But the longed for child is in fact a tree stump with an insatiable and indiscriminate appetite!
Review:
Based on a putative folk tale, this is the Czech animator's first venture into more or less full-on live action feature film-making. The acting and action are broad, befitting the surreal tone of the piece, but one struggles to discern a point to the mayhem - though plenty of resonances abide (Eraserhead's griping infant, Frankenstein, the blancmange in Monty Python).
(Otesánek)
Country: CZ/GB/JAP
Technical: col 131m
Director: Jan Svankmajer
Cast: Veronika Zilková, Jan Hartl, Jaroslava Kretschmerová, Pavel Novy
Synopsis:
The dreams of a lonely girl in an apartment block of having a playmate look like being answered when her childless neighbours finally conceive. But the longed for child is in fact a tree stump with an insatiable and indiscriminate appetite!
Review:
Based on a putative folk tale, this is the Czech animator's first venture into more or less full-on live action feature film-making. The acting and action are broad, befitting the surreal tone of the piece, but one struggles to discern a point to the mayhem - though plenty of resonances abide (Eraserhead's griping infant, Frankenstein, the blancmange in Monty Python).
(Otesánek)
Country: CZ/GB/JAP
Technical: col 131m
Director: Jan Svankmajer
Cast: Veronika Zilková, Jan Hartl, Jaroslava Kretschmerová, Pavel Novy
Synopsis:
The dreams of a lonely girl in an apartment block of having a playmate look like being answered when her childless neighbours finally conceive. But the longed for child is in fact a tree stump with an insatiable and indiscriminate appetite!
Review:
Based on a putative folk tale, this is the Czech animator's first venture into more or less full-on live action feature film-making. The acting and action are broad, befitting the surreal tone of the piece, but one struggles to discern a point to the mayhem - though plenty of resonances abide (Eraserhead's griping infant, Frankenstein, the blancmange in Monty Python).