The Film Corner

The Film Corner with Greg Klymkiw (full review link)

Wednesday, 30 November 2016

THE DEATH (AND LIFE) OF CARL NAARDLINGER by Katherine Schlemmer

Review By Greg Klymkiw

(excerpt)

Katherine Schlemmer’s sprightly directorial debut yields a queerly delightful comedy of coincidence which leads its characters and the audience on an odyssey into the very heart of what it means to be human in a seemingly apportioned world that, below its surface, roils with crises of identity. Much of the film is delivered by its superb cast in perfect deadpan, so much so, that at one point, when the film explodes into a volcano of mad, manic overlapping dialogue, the effect is as jolting as it is hilarious.

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