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A little girl follows a white rabbit into a world where nothing is quite what it seems. So far, so familiar - but where Svankmajer's first feature differs from all other adaptations of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland is that it explores the book's darker side as well. Told through a combination of live ation (Alice is the only human performer) and stop-motion animation, it owes as much to Svankmajer as to Carroll with outwardly familiar events given fresh and unexpected new twists.

 

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Director Jan Svankmajer
Genre Animation

 

Country Czech Republic Language ENGLISH   Year 1988

 

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Certificate PG   Length 86 mins   Label VISC
Cat No MJ011   Format VHS   Colour
Region2    

 

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Article - "Some Notes on Jan Švankmajer" by Graeme Hobbs
Friday 24th August 2007

By the time you get to the very end of the very last film on the BFI’s Jan Švankmajer collection, Food, it’s hard not to raise a wry smile when the credits state ‘made with the support of the Czech Ministry of Culture’.
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