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WHAT THE CRITICS SAID
A risk-free acid trip for the
price of a cinema ticket.
JOURNEY INTO BLISS is either something
you'll admire or absolutely despise. Hell, it took me a few days just
to get over the shock of watching it.
Boy, is this movie ever strange!
If you can watch it, see it! And prepare to see a movie you would never
have been able to imagine!
The sets knock you for six with their
lavish cornucopia of detail. There flickers across the screen a wild
mix of animation and real-life film photography, from the hand of Germany's
most daredevil film-maker.
With its carnival-esque atmosphere,
everything-including-the-kitchen-sink production design and emphasis
on bodily effusions, it suggests a cross between Alejandro Jodorowsky
and a Troma flick with touches of early Terry Gilliam.
This is a truly cosmic viewing
experience. I was completely mesmerized by what unfolded on the silver
screen.
Like a bizarre car wreck between Ken
Russell, Peter Jackson, Terry Gillam, Marc Caro and Jean Pierre Jeunet,
JOURNEY INTO BLISS is an almoust indescribable nightmare dreamscape
of epic originality and energy. It's an experience like no other. Love
it or hate it, there's nothing else like it.
Wenzel Storch has definitely made a
name for himself as one of the most outrageous directors, not only in
Germany but also in the world. If you want a good, trippy flick I don't
think you can do much better than this.
A dislocated tale in a ray of psychedelic
colours. Difficult to be more freaked-out than this...
Part Gilliam`s folktales, part Greenaway`s
sinister twistiness, Storch cuts at our filmic sensibilities and makes
us love it.
JOURNEY
INTO BLISS is an ingeniously handcrafted labour of madness, the likes
of which hit the screen about as often as Hailey's comet can be seen
from earth.
The most innovative German movie in
ages: Wenzel Storch's follow-up to his cult classic SUMMER OF LOVE (1992)
is an insane trip to dada-land that combines German fairytales and 'South
Park' with generous hints of (in alphabetical order) Borowzcyk, Fellini,
Fulci, Gilliam, Jackson, Jodorowsky and Svankmajer. Must be seen to
be believed.
Wenzel Storch's obsessive, scatological
German nightmare fantasy, beyond Delicatessen, Terry Gilliam, and even
the brothers Grimm. Northampton, so safe and PC, needs more off-the-charts
movies like JOURNEY INTO BLISS. "There is something really, really,
really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really,
really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really,
really, really, really, really wrong with Germans." On
a budget of a mere few hundred thousand Euros, up-and-coming German
Director, Wenzel Storch, has delivered a spectacular feature film; which
ought in fact have cost many millions.
Wenzel
Storch is hailed by fun loving cinemagoers, and his loyal fan-club alike,
as ‘that wacky genius’.
An
adventure fairytale set in a dream world somewhere between, rococo,
rampant capitalism and Sesame Street.
A
comedy adventure film, fantastic as a fairytale, taking you back to
the flamboyant films of this genre from the 50s and 60s.
A
magnificent, glittering piece of work! Film sets the like of which have
never seen before. Wenzel Storch’s third, and it must be said,
his craziest film.
The
sets and costumes are fantastic, and the story is just ‘out of
this world’!
What
a wonderfully new kind of film! It`s so rare to see a film come along
with such a fierce individuality. JOURNEY INTO BLISS is easily one of
the freshest films that we have seen all year.
This
film is purely and simply sheer escapism. |
