Interkosmos (2006)
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Reviews Counted: 4 Fresh: 3 Rotten:1 Average Rating: N/A
Runtime: 71 mins
Synopsis:
The East Germans started in the 1970's, with their allies, on an ambitious, secret project to colonise the moons of Jupiter and Saturn. You didn't know that, did you? Finn reveals all: with beautiful archive material, swinging musical numbers in retro-socialist style, beautiful miniature... [More]
Genre: Comedies
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Made as if it were a collection of "historical footage" of the Soviet mission to Jupiter's moons
10/04/07 08:56 PM
Numerous times throughout slow buildup finally makes its way to a comedic payoff, but the wait is sometimes a test of cinematic endurance.
06/19/06 06:10 AM
Finn's deadpan is immaculately bone-dry, and his antiquarian fastidiousness is worthy of Guy Maddin.
08/03/06 04:33 PM
Top Critic Jim Finn's Interkosmos uses recreated newsreels combined with musical interludes to resurrect the '70s in all its Brezhnev-era glory.
08/03/06 04:34 PM
Top Critic Not every notion fully registers, but Finn scores enough hits to mark this poker-faced saga of far-out space nuts as a transcendent goof.
07/26/06 10:06 PM
The tone is of genial goofiness, executed with a light elan and a unified, restrained visual aesthetic, that is very hard to dislike.
08/03/06 04:37 PM
Here, outer space isn’t the realm of epic explosions and action-packed battles. Instead, it’s a slow, quiet place in which to ponder capitalism and mortality -- with a retro-pop soundtrack.
08/03/06 06:06 PM
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