Tokio!

Franz Kafka and Eugène Ionesco have their worthy successors among the current generation of filmmakers. It's absurd, provocative, crazy, comical, and simply extraordinary. The individual stories are based on interesting ideas and original processing, and I especially liked the first one - Interior Design, influenced by surrealism. I know similarly unnecessary people, and maybe it wouldn't be a bad idea to deal with their existence this way. The third story about the alienation of people in a modern metropolis is also good. I think it's good that the film was shot in Tokyo by foreign filmmakers, and using a European approach confronted with Asian realities had a positive impact on the result. Overall impression: 90%. (01.06.2009)

“Neo-magic bizarre surrealism" like straight out of Murakami’s tales. Two Frenchmen, one Korean and as much originality that can fit into a space the size of Tokyo. Immediately, Gondry’s contribution sets a standard for the following tales that is so high, it is impossible to exceed. Which soon proves to be true, but even so the remaining two tales easily deserve a solid five stars. Although Merde (a sort of artsy Toxic Avenger) is perhaps a little longer than it needed to be while Shaking Tokyo on the other hand has a few loose ends. But who cares when even the “movie inside the movie" in Gondry’s tale alone is more original and more entertaining that ninety percent of movies that come to the movie theaters here in the Czech Republic. P.S.: And this certainly isn’t just an intellectual affairs for one in a thousand cinephiles, but rather a movie that can appeal to a wide range of viewers. It’s just that this range is rather more bizarre than usual. (27.11.2008)