Alice

Name: Alice
Director: Gabriel Benattar
Released: 1988-12-14T00:00:00+00:00
Rating: 7.2

1988 · TMDB 7.2

In Paris, the student protests of December 1986. Alice Lazard is having her own revolution, expressing herself and trying to confront a world whose aggression and hatred ignite her fierce will to live and her madness. Or so we imagine. Swept away by her colorful language, her youth, her vivacity, her humor, we remain fascinated, and yet she expresses so much despair in the slow destruction of her relationship with a man... Romain, the creator of this character, is overwhelmed by her. He projects himself into another woman, Alice Lazard, brunette, warm, and aggressive. She comes to present herself to Romain for a role in his next film, but she doesn't understand his reactions at all. All of this unfolds under the sometimes amused, sometimes irritated gaze of Jean, the film's editor.

Why it matters

Jan Svankmajer's surreal adaptation of Lewis Carroll's Alice, in which a girl follows a stuffed rabbit into a world of taxidermy animals and broken toys. A disturbing and dreamlike film that uses stop-motion to create a sense of unease and decay.

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