Surviving Life
Director: Jan Svankmajer
Starring: Vaclav Helsus, Klara Issova, Zuzana Stivinova
Czech Republic, 2011, 1 hour 44 minutes, subtitles
Master surrealist animator Svankmajer’s most imaginative, visually arresting and subversive film since his fabulous Alice is about an office drone who strikes up an affair with a gorgeous woman in red. They rendezvous in his dreams. He discovers a way he can play out his extended fantasy but the more he does so, the more the swarms of eccentric erotic symbols (smashed melons, broken eggs, a teddy bear with a giant phallus) start to take on a life of their own. While dazzling the eye with animation that falls somewhere between ‘South Park’, ‘The Yellow Submarine’ and Terry Gilliam, Svankmajer humourously harnesses the skewed workings of the subconscious to create a film like no other you’ll see this year.
“The film interestingly and subversively takes its stand on the idea that dreams are the real thing; waking life is an exotic, strange tissue of unreal diversions.” Guardian
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| Aberystwyth Arts Centre | 2012-03-24 | 17:45:00 | Buy Tickets |
| Taliesin Arts Centre, Swansea | 2012-04-10 | 20:00:00 | Buy Tickets |
| The Riverfront | 2012-04-02 | 19:45:00 | Buy Tickets |
| The Riverfront | 2012-04-03 | 19:45:00 | Buy Tickets |
| The Riverfront | 2012-04-04 | 19:45:00 | Buy Tickets |
