REVIEW: Directed and written by Albert Birney and Kentucker Audley, the film follows an IRS auditor assigned to inspect dream recordings and assess unpaid taxes from those who haven’t upgraded to the latest software.
In the future, they’ll even find a way to tax your dreams. So goes the premise of Albert Birney and Kentucker Audley’s “,” a beguilingly handcrafted sci-fi adventure opening this week at the Brattle Theatre. Something like a cross between Wes Anderson and Philip K.
What an odd and unique movie this is, full of child-like whimsy and wonder. Filmmakers Birney and Audley previously teamed for 2017’s “Sylvio,” the charming tale of a depressed gorilla working as a debt collector and talk show sidekick who yearns to express himself artistically. It’s a silly story that’s somehow strangely touching and relatable, despite the protagonist being played by Birney in a costume-shop ape mask.
Birney and Audley are analog filmmakers at heart, and the dazzling dreamscapes of “Strawberry Mansion” are conjured out of papier mâché, puppets, miniatures, stop-motion animation and primitive cinematic sleight-of-hand dating back to the silent era. It’s a movie where men dress like 1940s private eyes and drive giant, 1960s gas-guzzling sedans. The cutting-edge technology is retrofitted from old, top-loading VCRs and 8-bit graphic display screens.
Without putting too fine a point on it, the artisanal, homemade quality of these images feels itself like an act of rebellion against an increasingly crass corporate culture. The disgusting fast-food products that keep getting pitched into Preble’s dreams — like an especially icky sounding fried-chicken-and-gravy shake I’m surprised isn’t available already — pollute the characters’ most private moments.
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