Alice (1988)
- Original title
- Něco z Alenky
- Directed by
- Jan Švankmajer
- Genre
- fantasy film, adventure film, grotesque film, puppet film
- Country
- Czechoslovakia, West Germany, Germany, United Kingdom
- Runtime
- 1h 26m
- Rated
- 18+
- Rating
- 7.4 of 10 from 358 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A young girl chases a white rabbit into a strange fantasy land. The film uses live action and stop-motion animation to create a dark dreamlike world.
dreamlikeunsettlingsurrealdarkcreepyslow-burnvisually lushwhimsical
What happens
Alice is a 1988 surrealist dark fantasy film written and directed by Jan Švankmajer. Its original Czech title is Něco z Alenky, which means "Something from Alice". It is a loose adaptation of Lewis Carroll's first Alice book, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865), about a girl who chases a white rabbit into a bizarre fantasy land. Alice is played by Kristýna Kohoutová. The film combines live-action with stop-motion animation, and is distinguished by its dark production-design. For Švankmajer, a prolific director of short films for more than two decades, Alice became his first venture into feature-length filmmaking. The director had been disappointed by other adaptations of Carroll's book, which interpret it as a fairy tale. His aim was instead to make the story play out like an amoral dream. The film won the feature-film-award at the 1989 Annecy International animated Film Festival. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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