Street of Crocodiles

Name: Street of Crocodiles
Genre: Animation, Short
Duration: 20 min
Rating: 7.6
Cast: Feliks Stawinski

IMDb RATING

7.6/10

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Animation Short

Inside a box full of curio, a puppet who is recently freed from his strings explores a dusty and forlorn commercial area. The explorer becomes ensnared into miniature tailor shop by baby-fac... Read allInside a box full of curio, a puppet who is recently freed from his strings explores a dusty and forlorn commercial area. The explorer becomes ensnared into miniature tailor shop by baby-faced dolls.Inside a box full of curio, a puppet who is recently freed from his strings explores a dusty and forlorn commercial area. The explorer becomes ensnared into miniature tailor shop by baby-faced dolls.

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7.6/10

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Awards
- 4 wins & 1 nomination

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Feliks Stawinski in Street of Crocodiles (1986)

Trivia
One of Christopher Nolan's 30 favorite films.

Quotes
Bruno Schulz: In that city of cheap human material, no instincts can flourish, no dark and unusual passions can be aroused. "The Street of Crocodiles" was a concession of our city to modernity and metropolitan corruption. The misfortune of that area is that nothing ever succeeds there, nothing can ever reach a definite conclusion. Obviously, we were unable to afford anything better than a cardboard imitation, a photo montage cut out from last year's mouldering newspapers. Obviously, we were unable to afford anything better.

Connections
Edited into Tales of the Brothers Quay (1987)

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If you're only going to watch one Quay film in your life, make it this one!!!

I have seen this film numerous times before buying it on dvd this year and I have to say that it's impact has not wavered in the slightest.

Wonderful set design to house the strange, almost nightmarish characters and bodies that only the Brothers Quay could bring to life. The legitstics and reality of this world are unimportant and have no baring on the minimal plot. One is simply asked to believe that this place exists for the ungodly creatures to inhabit. To say that this film brings up moments of some childhood nightmare wihtin us is not far from the truth. But what the Quay Brothers manage to do (for me, anyways) is open up the possibility of worlds never explored within the sub-conscious, to allow oneself to be absorbed by the rust and decay and follow the trails of strings into the darkness, hoping to find some answers to questions you forgot you had.

As soon as I saw this I knew that they had tapped into the dreams that some of us wished we didn't have, but would have been upset had we not had them shown to us to begin with. This is probably the best work by the brothers that you could possibly see.

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