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

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)

Trailer

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