Alice

1988 / 86min / DCP

Of the many, many film adaptations of the beloved Alice books, none so wholly enters into the proto-surrealist spirit of Lewis Carroll’s abundant imagination as Švankmajer’s feature filmmaking debut—completed after more than two decades of producing short works—which “strips away all sweetness and light” [New York Times] from the source material to cast its heroine/narrator (Kristýna Kohoutová, the lone human performer here) adrift in a troubling subterranean dreamscape, an overstuffed cabinet of curiosities containing maniacal tea parties, stuffed rabbits and socks that move with minds of their own, and an apoplectically angry Queen of Hearts.

Distributor: Park Circus

Part of The Weird and Wonderful World of Czech Animation