1966 · satire · political · allegory
A Report on the Party and Guests
Directed by Søren Peter Langkjær Bojsen1h 18m1966
Europe, 2028. A humanlike creature washes ashore, carrying with him a motionless body he calls his mother. He is on a mission of some kind, reporting on the dwindling human activity in an increasingly automated world.
Our read: A Report on the Party and Guests (1966) reads as a sombre, steady, inventive satire · political · allegory entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Sombre, steady, measured satire / political, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold.
- sombre
- inventive
- bleak
- cold
- signature
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