The Brothers Quay - Richard Combs (review date July 1986)
Richard Combs (review date July 1986)
SOURCE: A review of Ein Brudermord, in Monthly Film Bulletin, Vol. 53, No. 630, July, 1986, pp. 219-20.
[In the following review of Ein Brudermord, which is based on the short story "Ein Brudermord" (1917) by Franz Kafka, Combs argues that "puppet films are probably best qualified to give clear and accurate meaning to the notoriously generalised concept of the 'Kafkaesque.'"]
One night about nine o'clock, Schmar takes up his position with a knife at the corner where Wese, his intended victim, will turn from the street where he works into the street where he lives. Schmar passes the time whetting his knife and practising his thrust, observed by a neighbour, Pallas, who does nothing to prevent the crime. Mrs. Wese looks out for her husband, who is working uncommonly late, but at last the sound of a door bell announces his exit into the street. At the corner, he pauses to contemplate the...
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