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A Journey Into Bliss (2004)

A Journey Into Bliss (2004)

Comedy Fantasy
Release Date: 2004, April 16
Directors: Wenzel Storch
Countries: Germany
Cast: Friedrich Schoenfelder, Holger Müller, Harry Rowohlt, Jürgen Höhne, Jasmin Harnau

Overview:

The film deals loosely with the adventures of the grizzled Gustav who captains a ship – a giant floating ‘snailboat’ – with a crew of talking animals and lumbering sailors in blackface. It unspools like a perverse children’s story book, all at once cuddly cute, grotesquely obscene and beyond absurd as normal narrative logic shatters, giving way to an episodic, free-associative structure that one critic likened to “cinematic memory association.” (joergbuttgereit.com)