black comedy
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The Brand New Testament
God (Benoît Poelvoorde) is not a very nice deity. He is mean to his wife (Yolande Moreau) who he bullies into silence, and he will not allow Ea (Pili Groyne) his 1o-year-old daughter go out of their high rise apartment in Brussels. He spends his whole day dressed in his pajamas in his office on his computer taking…
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Chatty Catties
For his debut feature film L.A. based artist and writer Pablo Valencia used his rather deranged imagination to risk making an extraordinary innovative black comedy that he almost manages to pull off. This story is of an aspiring filmmaker called Shelby who has more than her fair share of emotional issues and substance abuse and who talks her…
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Cowboys
‘Cowboys’ is an oddball absurdist Croatian comedy that was such a hit at home it became the country’s official submission for an Academy Award Best Foreign Picture Nomination last year. It didn’t win anything but it did at least show the world what extraordinary filmmakers they are, and what a glorious bizarre sense of humor…
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MENTAL
There is an hilariously funny opening sequence when the camera swoops down from the nearby mountains to spot Shirley, a suburban housewife on the verge of a breakdown, hanging out her washing in her garden whilst she recreates the beginning of ‘The Sound of Music’ that she is totally obsessed with. Her five daughters however…
