The most celebrated work of the brother Quays', this adaptation of Bruno Schulz's "Street of Crocodiles" is an amazing work of imaginative genius that's enthralling, alluring and hyper-cinematic.
I really want to be able to dream like this. Or perhaps I do but I can't remember. It's like "Finnegans Wake", really, where everything is loaded with meaning on multiple levels simultaneously. The Brothers' imagery is just like this, it seems to explode to all directions, all the time, and one is breathless in trying to keep up.
The brothers' work is also deeply referential. The tennis rackets and ice cube are straight from "This Unnameable Little Broom" (1985), and this internal connectivity brings a sense of integrality, where we reassemble the things we see — much of what is incomprehensible for us — in a wider frame of reference, as if resuscitating the images from our unconsciousness with fresh connotations to other films, somehow becoming even richer and more meaningful.
It's also utterly awe-inspiring how they make the camera move and inhabit the world. It moves effortlessly and fluidly, examining the smallest of details and then cleaving the particle-filled spaces framed by the brothers' exquisite knack for interior design.
I really want to be able to dream like this. Or perhaps I do but I can't remember. It's like "Finnegans Wake", really, where everything is loaded with meaning on multiple levels simultaneously. The Brothers' imagery is just like this, it seems to explode to all directions, all the time, and one is breathless in trying to keep up.
The brothers' work is also deeply referential. The tennis rackets and ice cube are straight from "This Unnameable Little Broom" (1985), and this internal connectivity brings a sense of integrality, where we reassemble the things we see — much of what is incomprehensible for us — in a wider frame of reference, as if resuscitating the images from our unconsciousness with fresh connotations to other films, somehow becoming even richer and more meaningful.
It's also utterly awe-inspiring how they make the camera move and inhabit the world. It moves effortlessly and fluidly, examining the smallest of details and then cleaving the particle-filled spaces framed by the brothers' exquisite knack for interior design.