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Strawberry Mansion Review: Cheerfully Lo-Fi Fantasy Aims to Save Our Dreams From Corporate Overlords Strawberry Mansion Review: Cheerfully Lo-Fi Fantasy Aims to Save Our Dreams From Corporate Overlords
Kentucker Audley and Albert Birney s sweet, shoestring Sundance oddity posits a near future in which our sleeping hours are up for sale.
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With: Kentucker Audley, Penny Fuller, Grace Glowicki, Reed Birney, Linas Phillips, Constance Shulman, Ephraim Birney, Albert Birney.
Running time: Running time: 91 MIN.
Courtesy of Sundance Institute
It’s a popular conception that there’s nothing more boring than hearing about other people’s dreams, which by rights should make James Preble the meek, cutely mustachioed hero of “Strawberry Mansion” the unfortunate owner of the world’s dullest job: He’s a tax auditor who has to scan his clients’ recorded dreams for hidden expenses. This makes a rough kind of sense in Kentucker A
Sweet respite from painful times.
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Kentucker Audley and Albert Birney s film is a futuristic fantasy-romance revolving around a man and the woman whose dreams he is tasked with auditing.
It’s rare for an independent film to be as gentle and childlike as
Strawberry Mansion, the second feature collaboration from writing-directing team Kentucker Audley and Albert Birney. The filmmakers, who have made a number of movies separately, established their whimsical partnership with
Sylvio, a similarly quirky comedy about a kind, misunderstood gorilla who loves puppets. That film introduced us to Audley and Birney’s quiet, candy-colored world characterized by curiosity and warmth.
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The indie film showcase s pandemic-era program also has directorial debuts by Jerrod Carmichael, Pascual Sisto and Questlove with his Black Woodstock documentary.
As Sundance director Tabitha Jackson s reign at the indie film festival gets well underway, the marquee indie U.S. film showcase has gone mostly online with a pandemic-era discovery lineup filled with work by women and BIPOC directors and more than half the 2021 program shot by first-time helmers.
For Jackson, the focus on debut feature directors underlines how, despite the COVID-19 crisis pausing film production in Hollywood and upending planning for Sundance s upcoming Jan. 28 to Feb. 3, 2021, edition, the marquee festival isn t playing it safe as it doubles down on revealing new independent voices to the world.