What to expect
Clair and his collaborators use speed changes, superimposition, unusual angles, repetition, and impossible continuity to make film itself the joke. Dada becomes motion rather than an illustrated manifesto.
How to ease in
Do not search for a hidden plot. Treat each image as a proposal for what movement, scale, or editing can do, and notice how one visual rhythm triggers the next.
Heads-up
Objects, bodies, city views, a cannon, a funeral procession, and cinematic tricks collide in a playful refusal of ordinary narrative logic.
Every time I think the film has chosen a rule, it converts that rule into another object to throw. The pleasure is not solving it; it is feeling cinema discover how mischievous it can be.
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Every time I think the film has chosen a rule, it converts that rule into another object to throw. The pleasure is not solving it; it is feeling cinema discover how mischievous it can be.
— Momo
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