The Czech Republic's (or is it now Czechia?) submission to the Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film focuses on a man whose memories haunt him during a crucial point in the country's history. Tomás Lunák's* rotoscoped "Alois Nebel" has as its protagonist a man working at a train station on the Polish border in 1989. He remembers the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia. He begins to suffer hallucinations, but it's never totally clear what's real and what isn't, even as the Soviet-backed regime collapses and Havel's government takes over.
This is one of the most haunting movies that I've ever seen. The animation is done like a graphic novel (and in fact is based on a trilogy of graphic novels), with everything made to look dismal. Even if a lot of the content is a cultural thing, you can't deny that they made one outstanding movie here. I recommend it.
*For some reason, IMDb no longer lets users write diacritical marks on consonants.
This is one of the most haunting movies that I've ever seen. The animation is done like a graphic novel (and in fact is based on a trilogy of graphic novels), with everything made to look dismal. Even if a lot of the content is a cultural thing, you can't deny that they made one outstanding movie here. I recommend it.
*For some reason, IMDb no longer lets users write diacritical marks on consonants.