Dante's Inferno (2007)

Directed by

Sean Meredith

Genre

comedy film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 28m

Rated

NR

Rating

6.4 of 10 from 27 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A modern comedy retelling of Dante's journey through hell, performed with hand-drawn paper puppets on a stage. Dante is guided by Virgil through a series of absurd and satirical underworld scenes.

theatricalwhimsicalsurrealirreverenthandmadeplayfuldarkly comicfast-paced

What happens

Dante's Inferno is a 2007 comedy film performed with hand-drawn paper puppets on a theater stage. The film was adapted from the book "Dante's Inferno" by Sandow Birk and Marcus Sanders (Chronicle Books, 2004), a modern update of the canticle Inferno from Dante Alighieri's epic poem Divine Comedy. The film chronicles Dante's (voiced by Dermot Mulroney) journeys through the underworld, guided by Virgil (voiced by James Cromwell). The head puppeteer was Paul Zaloom and the puppets were designed by Elyse Pignolet and drawn by Sandow Birk. The film premiered January 20, 2007 at the 2007 Slamdance Film Festival. The film has also been shown at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival, Sarasota Film Festival, Atlanta Film Festival, Newport Beach Film Festival, Maryland Film Festival, Silver Lake Film Festival, the Boston Underground Film Festival, and on the Ovation TV cable network. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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