Strawberry Mansion

Name: Strawberry Mansion
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Released: February 18, 2022
Duration: 91 min
Rating: 74
Cast: Albert Birney, Constance Shulman, Ephraim Birney, Grace Glowicki, Kenny Brossoie

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Music Box Films | Release Date: February 18, 2022 | Not Rated

Starring: Albert Birney, Constance Shulman, Ephraim Birney, Grace Glowicki, Kenny Brossoie, Kentucker Audley, Linas Phillips, Penny Fuller, Reed Birney

Summary: In 2035, our dreams are no longer our own–they’re infused with product placement and auditors assess unpaid taxes on our most private reveries. Beleaguered taxman James Preble (Kentucker Audley) arrives at a run-down house in the countryside for a routine audit and encounters Bella Isadora (Penny Fuller), a lifelong dreamer who remainsIn 2035, our dreams are no longer our own–they’re infused with product placement and auditors assess unpaid taxes on our most private reveries. Beleaguered taxman James Preble (Kentucker Audley) arrives at a run-down house in the countryside for a routine audit and encounters Bella Isadora (Penny Fuller), a lifelong dreamer who remains resolutely analog, circumventing the surveillance state with VHS tapes and homemade headgear. As Preble works his way through Bella’s archive of the unconscious, he begins to fall in love with visions of her younger self (Grace Glowicki). But all is not well in dreamland as dangerous family secrets and a rogue’s gallery of blue demons and fried chicken pitchmen threaten to set the lovers’ paradise ablaze. Can Preble and Bella escape from the modern, monetized dreamscape and find refuge in Strawberry Mansion?… Expand

Director: Albert Birney and Kentucker Audley

Genre(s): Adventure, Drama, Fantasy

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 91 min

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Debopriyaa Dutta

Feb 24, 2022

Combining the delightful and the absurd, Strawberry Mansion is a sweet triumph, an ode to imagination, and a manifesto on the wonders of love. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Sheila O'Malley

Feb 18, 2022

Strawberry Mansion sacrifices nothing. It's whimsical but it's poignant, it's light-hearted and it's deep. Read full review

IndieWire Eric Kohn

Feb 2, 2021

With Dan Deacon’s cosmic synth carrying the strange twists along, “Strawberry Mansion” works its way through an absurdist romance with palpable depth. Read full review

Jourdain Searles

Feb 2, 2021

Strawberry Mansion is a movie about the preservation of imagination. There is definitely an undercurrent of anti-corporate messaging that is always relevant in this modern media landscape. But these themes are not presented with a heavy hand. The point that the film is trying to make can be taken as lightly or as seriously as one likes. What Audley and Birney seem to want most is for audiences to allow themselves to be overtaken by their deliberately childlike approach to storytelling. Read full review

The Film Stage Jordan Ruimy

Feb 2, 2021

The film is equal parts lovely and frightening as it explores romantic bliss, destructive capitalism, and the significance of the subconscious state we all spend a third of our lives experiencing. Read full review

Movie Nation Roger Moore

Feb 16, 2022

There’s a whole lot of “bizarre” going here, but it’s easy enough to follow and its meaning and message are simple enough to understand. Read full review

Hoai-Tran Bui

Feb 2, 2021

It’s pop art made into a feature film, which is a swell idea — if there’s an emotional core that can carry the audience through the staid surrealism. But Audley and the rest of the cast choose to play their characters like stoic ciphers, barely formed archetypes who glide through the film as if in some kind of permanent dream state themselves, making Strawberry Mansion feel even less anchored to reality. Read full review

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Brent_Marchant

Feb 19, 2022

Wow, without a doubt one of the best releases I've seen in a long time. This little-known sci-fi gem from directors Kentucker Audley and Albert Birney serves up a funny, thoughtful meditation on the nature of existence, the intrusiveness of attempted mental manipulation and the perils ofWow, without a doubt one of the best releases I've seen in a long time. This little-known sci-fi gem from directors Kentucker Audley and Albert Birney serves up a funny, thoughtful meditation on the nature of existence, the intrusiveness of attempted mental manipulation and the perils of unbridled greed, all wrapped up in a delightful, visually sensational package. It's also one of the most romantic stories I've screened in ages, conveying genuine, heartfelt emotion without ever becoming schmaltzy, a rare accomplishment in general and something rarely seen in this genre. The film's scrupulous attention to detail in the production design and writing is absolutely astounding, and its inventive, clever creativity sparkles but without ever becoming exceedingly excessive. There's a lot to like here, as well as a lot that gives viewers pause for thought. And, aside from a slight tendency to stretch things out a little too long in the final act, there's really not much else to criticize here. This one may not appeal to everyone, but, for those who value cinematic innovation without becoming tedious, annoying or implausible, this one is for you.… Expand

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