200 Motels (1971)

Directed by

Tony Palmer, Frank Zappa

Genre

progressive rock, musical film

Country

United Kingdom, United States

Runtime

1h 35m

Rated

R

Rating

5.2 of 10 from 48 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A surreal musical film about rock musicians on tour. It follows the Mothers of Invention as they deal with the strangeness of life on the road. The movie mixes concert footage with absurd sketches and animation.

surrealchaoticwhimsicalexperimentalenergeticsatiricaloffbeatunpredictablefast-paced

What happens

200 Motels is a 1971 surrealist musical film written and directed by Frank Zappa and Tony Palmer, and featuring music by Zappa. An international co-production of United States and the United Kingdom, the film stars the Mothers of Invention, Theodore Bikel, Keith Moon and Ringo Starr. A soundtrack album was released in the same year, with a slightly different selection of music. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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