PREVIEW: Strawberry Mansion (12A)

WHO’S IN IT?

Kentucker Audley (She Dies Tomorrow), Grace Glowicki (Raf), Penny Fuller (All The President’s Men), Reed Birney (Mass), Constance Shulman (Fried Green Tomatoes), Linas Phillips (Spree)

WHO’S BEHIND THE CAMERA?

Kentucker Audley (Open Five) and Albert Birney (Sylvio), directors, writers, editors; Emma Hannaway (film debut), Matisse Rifai (film debut), Taylor Shung (Mickey and the Bear) and Sarah Winshall (We’re All Going to the World’s Fair), producers; Dan Deacon (Hustle), composer; Tyler Davis (film debut), cinematographer

WHAT’S IT ABOUT?

In the near future, people’s dreams are recorded and taxed by the government. James Preble (Audley), a dream auditor, travels to the home of an eccentric old woman named Arabella (Fuller) to conduct an inspection of her various dreams, but as he goes through them, he begins to fall in love with the younger version of Bella (Glowicki) who appears prominently in them. Soon, he too gets caught up in the strange and increasingly surreal dream world he’s been assigned to audit…

IN ONE SENTENCE, WHY SHOULD YOU BE EXCITED?

There’s more than just the faintest whiff of Monty Python and former member Terry Gilliam’s dystopian classic Brazil in this utterly surreal and unpredictable sci-fi fantasy.

WHEN’S IT OUT?

FRIDAY 16TH SEPTEMBER 2022

WHERE CAN I FIND IT?

IN CINEMAS NATIONWIDE

 

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