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An original head trip definitely not recommended for kiddies. Oct 6, 2006 | Rating: 3/4
An original head trip definitely not recommended for kiddies.
V.A. Musetto
Thirteen years in the making, Christiane Cegavskes stop-motion fairy tale is at once wondrously obsolete and perfectly au courant. Oct 4, 2006 | Rating: 5/5
Thirteen years in the making, Christiane Cegavskes stop-motion fairy tale is at once wondrously obsolete and perfectly au courant.
Nathan Lee
As lovingly crafted as it is unsettlingly sour-sweet. Oct 3, 2006
As lovingly crafted as it is unsettlingly sour-sweet.
Dennis Harvey
As with Henry Darger, coherence is beside the point; one just waits for the next baffling image. Oct 3, 2006
As with Henry Darger, coherence is beside the point; one just waits for the next baffling image.
R. Emmet Sweeney
...utterly idiosyncratic, in the best sense of the word. ... Very trippy and sometimes strangely disturbing, this is a quintessential midnight movie. Mar 1, 2007
...utterly idiosyncratic, in the best sense of the word. ... Very trippy and sometimes strangely disturbing, this is a quintessential midnight movie.
Andy Klein
So achingly lovely, so immersive in a genuine childhood world, that it's hard to image a viewer walking away unmoved. Mar 1, 2007 | Full Review…
So achingly lovely, so immersive in a genuine childhood world, that it's hard to image a viewer walking away unmoved.
Frank Lovece
Unravels dispassionately. Oct 6, 2006 | Rating: 2.5/4 | Full Review…
Unravels dispassionately.
Ed Gonzalez
A stunning achievement that will appeal to anyone in search of a bold and captivating movie. Oct 4, 2006 | Rating: 4/5
A stunning achievement that will appeal to anyone in search of a bold and captivating movie.
Phil Hall
Cegavske imbues her scrappy little creatures with disturbingly complex personalities. Oct 3, 2006 | Rating: 4/4 | Full Review…
Cegavske imbues her scrappy little creatures with disturbingly complex personalities.
Maitland McDonagh
Cegavske's film is a meld of surreal imagery, and a morbid somewhat horrific story that art lovers will enjoy. Horror fans need apply. Oct 3, 2006 | Rating: 3.5/5
Cegavske's film is a meld of surreal imagery, and a morbid somewhat horrific story that art lovers will enjoy. Horror fans need apply.
Felix Vasquez Jr.
It is the oddest film I've seen all year, and certainly earns big points for originality. Oct 3, 2006 | Rating: 3.5/5 | Full Review…
It is the oddest film I've seen all year, and certainly earns big points for originality.
Jette Kernion
A group of white mice (who drink blood tea) steal a doll belonging to a clan of rodents in this dialogue-free stop-motion feature. Beautiful and imaginative, with hallucinogenic berries, a frog sorcerer, and a near-perfect mix of surrealism and fairy tale darkness. People say it again and again, but it's the perfect description: BLOOD TEA is like a lost Jan Svankmajer film.
Super Reviewer
Technically and visually a BRILLIANT little film. If you know anything about the amount of work that goes into stop motion work, you can't help but be impressed. Especially with all of the little details. The story is interesting and bizarre in a creepy/cool sort of way, but it feels a bit self-indulgent at times. A very impressive piece of art if nothing else.
It's the mice vs. the fuzzy beaked things in a dispute over a "beautiful" doll. There are wagons pulled by turtles, hallucinogenic berries, flesh eating plants, frogs dressed like monks, and a sundry assortment of other oddities. Christiane Cegavske spent years putting this fanciful but weird stop-motion universe together. Interesting, strange and very imaginative.
13 years in the making, director Christiane Cegavske worked to bring the stop-motion animated film to completion and is painstakingly detailed. It seems a great part of my movie-watching-time has been spent on sequels, remakes, re-adaptations, and narratives that rehash the same tired plots, storylines, and settings, that a film this original is refreshing.
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