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Accidental Luxuriance of the Translucent Watery Rebus
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Wikipedia article
{{infobox film
| name = Accidental Luxuriance of the Translucent Watery Rebus
| image = Accidental_Luxuriance_of_the_Translucent_Watery_Rebus.jpg
| director = Dalibor Bari
| writer = Dalibor Bari
| cinematography= Dalibor Bari
| music = Dalibor Bari
| starring = Rakan Rushaidat, Ana Vilenica, Frano Makovi, Nika Marinovi, Mario Kova, eljka Veverec, Boris Bakal, Pavlica Brazzoduro Bajsi
| producer = Ivan Kati
| studio = Kaos
| released =
| runtime = 81 minutes
}}
'Accidental Luxuriance of the Translucent Watery Rebus' is an animated film by Croatian director Dalibor Bari, shortlisted for the 2021 Satellite Awards in the 'Motion Picture, Animated or Mixed Media' category and submitted to the 2021 Academy Award for Best Animated Feature.
Production and release
The techniques used in the film include rotoscoping, collage and found footage. Bari took care of many parts of the films's creation himself; including direction, scripting, animation, compositing, soundtrack and editing. The film had a budget of 20,000.
The film was initially shown in ten Croatian arthouse cinemas and shown in the Zagreb Museum of Contemporary Art in 2020. In order to qualify for the Academy Awards it was also shown at Laemmle in early 2021. The film's general release was as Video on Demand on Vimeo.
Reception
In the 'Los Angeles Times', Carlos Agulilar described the film as "A surrealist noir film resembling the retro futurism of 'Alphaville'" and in 'Variety', reviewer Michael Nordine described the film as "vibrant and alive in a way that few films falling under the wide umbrella of animation even attempt to be." Peter Bradshaw, in a four star review for The Guardian, referred to it as a "distinctly disturbing and even absorbing" reverie, stating that there is "something impressive in the films indifference to narrative meaning or ordinary legibility." On Rotten Tomatoes the film holds an score of based on reviews.
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