
Alice (PG)
Director: Jan Svankmajer
Starring: Kristyna Kohoutová, Camilla Powers
Switzerland, 1988, 1 hour 26 minutes
Friday 4 April 6.15pm
Sunday 6 4.00pm
The Courtyard Hereford

Czech surrealist and master puppeteer Jan Svankmajer's definitive version of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is imbued with a grotesque, cruel and menacing dream logic that remains true to the absurd and unsettling spirit of Lewis Carroll's work. In a wonderland populated by an array of superbly animated puppets, steaks crawl, rolls sprout nails and Alice (the only human in the film) not only shrinks but becomes her own doll. A masterpiece from the greatest animator of all time.
"No other filmmaker is so consistently inventive in his ability to marry pure, startling nonsense with rigorous logic, black wit with piercing psychological insights" Geoff Andrew, Time Out
Winner Best Film at Annecy International Animated Film Festival 1987
The film will be introduced by Graeme Hobbs, whose many reviews and fortnightly podcasts on film can be found at MovieMail.
Sunday's film will be introduced by Graeme Hobbs, whose many reviews and fortnightly podcasts on film can be found at MovieMail.