1972 · comedy · animation · drama
Fritz the Cat
Directed by Ralph Bakshi1h 18m1972
In late 1960s New York City, fed up with monotonous college life and police repression, free-spirited Fritz, an impenitent seducer and unrestrained party-animal, decides to explore the world. And just like that, as he flees NYC, heading to San Francisco, Fritz embarks on an endless adventure of illumination. Immersed in a world surrounded by drugs and sex, Fritz participates in mad orgies, brings about a revolution, incites mass urban riots, and crosses paths with drug-addled Nazi bikers.
Our read: Fritz the Cat (1972) reads as a sombre, kinetic, inventive comedy · animation · drama entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Sombre, kinetic, measured comedy / animation, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold.
- sombre
- brisk
- inventive
- cold
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