Alex in Wonderland (1970)

Directed by

Paul Mazursky

Genre

comedy drama

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 50m

Rated

R

Rating

5.5 of 10 from 21 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A successful film director struggles to decide what movie to make next. He deals with family, fantasy sequences, and offers from Hollywood producers.

anxiousself-referentialwhimsicalcerebralmelancholicmetaslow-burnnostalgic

What happens

Alex in Wonderland is a 1970 American comedy-drama film directed by Paul Mazursky, written with his partner Larry Tucker, starring Donald Sutherland and Ellen Burstyn. Sutherland plays Alex Morrison, a director agonizing over the choice of follow-up project after the success of his first feature film. The situation is similar to the one Mazursky found himself in following the success of Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (1969) and he casts himself in a role as a new-style Hollywood producer. His daughter Meg Mazursky appears as Amy, one of Morrison's daughters. Noted teacher of improvisational theater Viola Spolin plays Morrison's mother. The film also features cameo appearances by Federico Fellini and Jeanne Moreau, and seems to be inspired by their work. In particular, Fellini's 8½ (1963), about a film director who's artistically stuck, is referenced. Moreau sings two songs on the soundtrack, "Le Vrai Scandale" (for which she wrote the words) and "Le Reve Est La." (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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