Absurdistan

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  • Rated: Unrated
  • Run Time: 1 hours, 30 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: August 18, 2009
  • Originally Released: 2008
  • Label: First Run Features

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AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 583
Rating: 2.5/4 -- Despite its comedic limitations, this film is up to more than its American adolescent counterparts. Full Review
Boston Globe
Mar 5, 2009
Writer-director Veit Helmer creates a wildly imaginative world worthy of Gabriel Garca Mrquez at his most playful, drenching it in vivid color and a Slavic sense of bleak humor. Full Review
Washington Post
Mar 26, 2009
An infectious spirit of whimsy, eroticism and wonder infuses ABSURDISTAN, a beguiling romantic fable....With a gloriously saturated palette, rich textures, a fanciful imagination and an unerring, light touch, Helmer gives ABSURDISTAN a distinct narrative style and visual verve that seem at once ancient and new.
Washington Post
Mar 27, 2009
Veit Helmer's latest is a delightful fable sans dialogue...is too enjoyable to go unappreciated offshore.
Variety
Feb 1, 2008
The trip to Absurdistan is worth taking, detours and all. Full Review
East Bay Express
Aug 16, 2011
The film isn't much more than light slapstick bookended by a sweet if lust-driven romance.
Washington City Paper
Mar 28, 2009
Rating: 3.5/5 -- Has a folkloric charm buoyed by consistent comic inventiveness. Full Review
Los Angeles Times
Feb 6, 2009

Product Description:

This magical comedy takes place in Absurdistan, a desert village plagued by drought. The men shirk fixing the water pipelines and so, until they find a solution, the women decide to tighten the spigot on another precious resource: sex. ABSURDISTAN is not based on the novel of the same name by Gary Shteyngart.

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Welcome to Absurdistan, a small village in the high desert mountains, just on the outskirts of reality, where magical visions and bizarre events fuse together.
The village is facing a water shortage, but the men are too lazy to fix a rickety pipeline and the women are getting fed up with their good-for-nothing husbands. Led by young Aya, the women make a simple vow: “No water, no sex.” The men's only hope is Temelko, whose long-promised wedding with Aya is put on hold until he finds a solution for the water problem.

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  • Sales Rank: 91,782
  • UPC: 720229913614
  • Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
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