The Brothers Quay - Michael O'Pray (review date June 1986)
Michael O'Pray (review date June 1986)
SOURCE: A review of Little Songs of the Chief Officer of Hunar Louse, or This Unnameable Little Broom, in Monthly Film Bulletin, Vol. 53, No. 629, June, 1986, p. 191.
[In the following review of This Unnameable Little Broom, O'Pray describes the film's action and discusses its relationship to the works of painter Max Ernst and to the ancient Sumerian poem cycle The Epic of Gilgamesh (c. 7th century BC) on which the film is based.]
The tricycle man goes about a three-walled room testing vicious mechanical traps and devices. He puts something in a table drawer, melts a block of ice on the table top, then disappears under the table through a trap door when a bell sounds. A winged insect creature enters, cautiously approaches the table, and through an eyepiece spies a morsel of flesh swinging in the innards of a female torso. Beneath the table, the tricycle man waits. Inside...
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