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On its surface, Mondo Siam is a travelogue through Cambodia,
Laos and Thailand, but not a travelogue in the traditional way as director
René Wiesner doesn't find his pictures in tourist attractions nor in
"hidden gems", but has a keen eye for the macabre, the decay,
the grotesque, the bizarre beauty of the mundane, even the dark sides of
everyday life, predilections he has already proven with his documentary
shorts. So we are taken to mummified corpses on display for tourists,
butchers taking apart dead animals in front of their customers at meat
markets, Buddah statues that show the same kind of decay as Mickey Mouse
and Pickachu statues, beggars with deformities selling their handiwork
right next to a band playing mindless pop music, alligator wrestling that
doesn't always go perfectly right and the like. But despite the word
"Mondo" in the title, Wiesner doesn't exploit any of this for
pure spectacle like the mondo movies of old, but puts a very meditative
spin to things, thanks to very unexcited camerawork and editing, a calm
score, and a total absence of on-screen sound. All this works to take the
audience to literally another world that's not only exotic to us by
definition, but is also seen through a very special pair of eyes, which
makes this a truly memorable trip.
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review © by Mike Haberfelner
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Robots and rats,
demons and potholes, cuddly toys and shopping mall Santas,
love and death and everything in between,
Tales to Chill Your Bones to is all of that.
Tales to Chill Your Bones to -
a collection of short stories and mini-plays ranging from the horrific to the darkly humourous,
from the post-apocalyptic to the weirdly romantic,
tales that will give you a chill and maybe a chuckle,
all thought up by the twisted mind of screenwriter and film reviewer Michael Haberfelner.
Tales to Chill Your Bones to
the new anthology by Michael Haberfelner
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