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Synopsis: Crispin Glover helms this darkly comic tale about a lonely man, which is shot in a non-narrative style that encompasses plenty of bizarre imagery and a cast mostly made up of people with Down's... [More]
It’s clear that [director] Glover is less interested in narrative than in rekindling a rich midnight-movie/avant-garde tradition that encompasses everything from Maya Deren and Jack Smith to Alejandro Jodorowsky and David Lynch.
The film, for all of its very explicit connections to other works, is still a thing of unique madness.
His directorial debut, What Is It? -- which plays as part of a double bill with a live, enthusiastically performed slide show in which Mr. Glover displays pages from his recent series of books -- is just as unclassifiable as he is.
Top CriticGlover, who appears in the film as a kind of barbarian dictator-auteur, lacks both the self-imposed ideological innocence and the talent for composing sounds and images of David Lynch.
Top CriticIt's weirdness for weirdness' sake, and while I disagree fundamentally with a film that has no purpose other than to make you go 'huh ... that was odd,' I do concede that most of the weirdness in this case is at least interesting weirdness.
If you're like me, i.e. an abnormally functioning film critic, you're likely to find it fascinating and utterly hilarious.
It isn't the blatant affronts - the aspects aimed to shock - that upset me, but the fact that the film lacks heart.
A shocker, but not a world-class one.
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