First Run Features
Directed by Jan Svankmajer
My rating: 3 stars out of 4
IMDb
(Blu-ray, First Run Features)
Kristyna Kohoutova is a bored little girl with a vivid imagination. She gets knocked out one day while playing games with her dolls and has an adventure following a white rabbit. She finds herself locked in small rooms and must use various methods to find a way out. The white rabbit leads her deeper and deeper into trouble, ultimately ending up in the court of the red queen and king on trial for her life. The plot tends to bog down in repetitive situations and since we don't really know much about Kohoutova we don't really care about her plight, leading to a rather unemotional story. Svankmajer's highly imaginative stop-motion animation makes up for those deficiencies for the most part. A bizarre, surreal interpretation of the classic Lewis Carroll story.
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