Strawberry Mansion
Few directors are able to really apprehend dreaming logic and the phantasmagorical flights of fondness that accompany such subject matter . David Lynch ’s name comes to mind , given his ability to craft dense , intricate narratives surrounding the complex quantity and the waking world , along with the gray area between the two . While the term " Lynchian " is often misconstrued and overdrive , applied to anything and everything that defies inclusion from a surrealist point of view , this is incisively how Albert Birney and Kentucky Audley’sStrawberry Mansioncan be defined . combine the delicious and the absurd , Strawberry Mansionis a sweet-flavored triumph , an ode to imaging , and a pronunciamento on the marvel of love .
The year is 2035 , yet every figure inStrawberry Mansionis saturated with nostalgia pieces — as if the future is n’t quite ready to allow go of the past times . James Preble ( Audley ) is a pipe dream listener for the U.S. government ; his job is to measure the taxes levied on items in dream . Yes , the future is top out with capitalist invasion into personal dream spaces and every individual must upload their dream via a equipment so as to allow for the politics to assign revenue enhancement value to them . While Preble contain out his job with industriousness , his own dreams are saturate in fuchsia garden pink , where a fall back design ( Linas Phillips ) shows up with commercial-grade item for Preble to consume . And go through he does , when he is astray awake , subconsciously puppeteered by the dream advertising to bribe merchandise ( although he is incognizant of the same in the beginning ) .
Enter Anabella Isadora ( Penny Fuller ) , an elderly widow who has not file her pipe dream taxis in year , as they have been recorded on endless VHS tapes alternatively of the mandatory “ airsticks . ” She ’s exceedingly kind to Preble , requesting him to outride at her lovely , cottagecore - like dwelling during the form of the audit . Yet something is amiss , as her dreams seem to be spilling over to Preble ’s cognizance . A maze of conspiracy is reveal : the government sneakily places products in people ’s dreaming , and the taxes imposed are ones that infringe on our innermost desire . Bella is cognizant of this , and the young Bella ( Grace Glowicki ) , whose dream Preble is auditing , comes off as mysterious and lovely as ever , propelling the dream hearer to come down in love . And it is the kind of love that helps shatter the boundary of reality and dreams , freeing the imagination in the most whimsical of way , crafting a way for a world where anything is possible .
However , there ’s trouble in paradise in the form of those who fight back everything that puddle us human , namely money - hungry leeches who wish to tire out base hopes and desires in commutation for profit . Everything that chance after this is elevated and fantastical , absurdly Lynchian to the point in time of downright delight — a spider delivers a frightening word of advice to Preble while he ’s wide alert , Bella ’s dream intersect with realism and bring about more bug in the awake public . There is a symbolic hero ’s journeying take alone by dream logical system : a quest to find Bella with the financial aid of sailor who are actually life - sized informer , and there ’s also a goat - like demon who hold Bella captive . No matter how absurd everything seems , there is an undertone of sweet sincerity that runs throughStrawberry Mansion .
ConsideringStrawberry Mansionwas made on a light budget and the film maker assume their “ go - along - with - your - wildest - visions ” badge with superbia , the flick is a triumph in every sentiency of the terminal figure . Audley and Glowicki play star - crossed lovers divided by the oceans of space , time , and dreams , riddle their bond with a especial marque of capricious legitimacy worth root for . Even when the motion-picture show stretch the limits of mental imagery , everything is still believable from a dreaming - logic perspective . One does not necessarily have to be an artist to appreciateStrawberry Mansion , but the film is a serenade to the howling beauty of art , the raw power of making love and our brain , along with the hope that one sidereal day , dreams will get ahead over the stark vacuum of didactical practicality .
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Strawberry Mansionwas released in theaters on February 18 , and will be available on VOD on February 25 . The film is 91 minutes farsighted and remains unrated as of now .
Strawberry Mansion is a 2021 surrealist scientific discipline fabrication picture direct by Kentucker Audley and Albert Birney . The story follows James Preble , a government dream attender , as he visit a remote farmhouse to audit the dreams of an older artist . While exploring her immense dreamscape , he uncovers secrets that challenge the bureaucratic world he has always recognize . The film star Kentucker Audley , Penny Fuller , and Grace Glowicki .
James Preble (Kentucky Audley) in Strawberry Mansion
James Preble (Kentucky Audley) and Bella (Grace Glowicki) in Strawberry Mansion
