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Directed by Terry Chiu | 175 minutes | Unrated |
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WE DARE YOU NOT TO FEEL
In a desolate wasteland, two super-powered souls fight for the absolution of their existential pain via the search for a prophesied and quite literal Embodiment of Angst. Forging an alliance with an enigmatic man who roams the wasteland within a giant mobile corrugated plastic boombox, their search for answers collides them with a barrage of weird and wicked gangs, as well as the most hideous being in the universe ...
Writer/director Terry Chiu's follow-up to his coming-of-age cult classic Mangoshake is a DIY epic cri de coeur for life with purpose and community, a chaotic elegy for the better world to come - Open Doom Crescendo is one of the most ambitious films ever made for close to no money. Self-consciously indebted to the philosophical action of Hideaki Anno (Neon Genesis Evangelion) and packed with spectacle to rival the biggest hollywood blockbusters, ODC sprints through strange details, madcap setpieces, and sincere emotion en route to a transcendent climax.
SIMILAR: Mad Max Fury Road, The End of Evangelion, Speed Racer
Screens with a pre-recorded Q&A with Terry Chiu.
Co-Presented with Asian Cinema Collective
"Incredibly heartfelt, raw - legitimately like nothing else I've ever seen." - Dan Barrett, Have a Nice Life
“Earnest, and hilarious, and radical in ways I haven’t seen from a movie of any scale in a long time, if ever.” - Brett Wright, Split Tooth Media
“The film's honesty about the spiritual burdens of lives lived in the shadow of non-places, and the brutal ways that identities are made, sustained, and destroyed in the great furnace of the 21st century exhilarated me like nothing else I've seen this year.” - Daniel Tune, MovieJuice
Country: Canada
Year: 2022
Language: English