Alice
by Jan Svankmajer
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Actor: Camilla Power, Krist?na Kohoutov?Director: Jan Svankmajer
Edition: VHS Tape
Audio: Czech (Original Language), Analog; English (Original Language)
Format: Animated, Color, Live, NTSC
Running Time: 84 minutes
Release Date: 1996-06-25
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Publisher: First Run Features
Studio: First Run Features
VHS Movie Reviews of Alice
Movie Review: LOVED IT
Summary: 5 Stars
The unique style... Creepy Animation... It all just goes together! One of my fav alice in wonderland videos... If you looking for a creepy alice... This is it!!! Its worth a good look... I have watched it may times... reminds me of the quay brothers... stop motion... very unique the only part i didnt like was the dubbed words in it... the movie would be so much better if the whole close up of the mouth was taken out... Its very annoying.. you start to get into the movie and then a close up of alices mouth comes on screen and says "said the white rabbit" or "said Alice" But if you can get past that... The movie is excellent!
Summary of Alice
This adaptation of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland mixes animation and live action to create a dreamlike world, but don't let that fool you into thinking it's simply a kid's film. Young Alice (Kristyna Kohoutov?, spoken by Camilla Power) watches a stuffed and mounted rabbit come to life in her playroom and follows it through a magical drawer into a strange world that resembles a 19th-century toy store come to life, with a few specimens from a natural history museum thrown in. Czech animator Jan Svankmajer retains the familiar story elements but tweaks them with bizarre imagery brought to herky-jerky life with his spasmodic style of stop-motion animation. The caterpillar becomes a sock puppet with dentures, while other crazy creatures materialize as creepy skull-headed beings that bleed sawdust. Throughout the tale Svankmajer returns to punctuating close-ups of Alice's lips telling the story, just to remind us that this is a tale told. In the best surrealist tradition Svankmajer uses familiar objects in unfamiliar ways, giving a fantasy quality to the banal (and the not so banal) while tipping the dream logic to the edge of nightmare. While the imagery remains more unsettling than genuinely disturbing, younger children will certainly be happier with Disney's brightly colored animated classic Alice in Wonderland. Older children and adults will better appreciate Svankmajer's sly visual wit and unusual animation style. --Sean AxmakerAnimation VHS Video
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