Louis Malle's Zazie dans le Métro is a full-color, live-action cartoon—an hour-and-a-half blast of Dadaist lunacy that feels like it’s being transmitted from an entirely different universe.
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Ashley Naftule is a playwright and journalist from Phoenix, AZ. He's been published in The AV Club, Daily Bandcamp, Pitchfork, Consequence of Sound, Phoenix New Times, The Hard Times, Vinyl Me Please, Longreads, The Outline, and Echo Magazine. His latest play, Radio Free Europa, will be premiering May 15th as a radio play (via remote conference). Check out Space55.org for more information.
The studied cool facades Hal Hartley’s characters put on, the way they almost play-act being criminals, the romantic fatalism that drives both the overarching narrative and the characters themselves: These are all elements that would make just as much sense in a Godard or Truffaut joint as they would in a ‘90s American indie film.
Bruno Bozzetto’s version of evolution in Allegro Non Troppo is a death march—a story of food chasing food.
