Plays like the end and the beginning of Japanese cinema: it contradicts itself and contains multitudes.
Paprika (2007)
Genre: Foreign Films
Starring: Megumi Hayashibara, Toru Furuya
DVD Info
Release:
Mar 11, 2009
DVD Features:
- Anamorphic Widescreen - 1.85
Audio:
- Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround - Japanese, English, French
- Subtitles - English, French, Spanish
Additional Release Materials:
- Audio Commentary - Satoshi Kon - Director
- Behind The Scenes - Making Of
- Featurettes - "A Conversation about the "Dream""
Reviews
The animation shows brilliant imagination by the filmmakers.
Its visual collision of mindscapes, films within films and dreams within dreams cascade into a dizzying rush that easily washes away the humdrum dialogue and somewhat sketchy plot.
Paprika fills me with such overwhelming enthusiasm as to leave me gibbering.
Solely as a magical mystery tour of sights, sounds and surrealism, however, it's a unique animated blast to the senses.
Offers both eye candy and mind candy -- it's a thoughtful visual treat.
Watching anime is like hearing a foreign language in which you are fluent but not native: However much you believe you understand, you can never be sure you totally get it.
With a conventional invade-dreams/bend-reality plot, it's a bit of a bore.
Simply the most refreshing piece of cinema I've seen this year.
Paprika, while certainly not suitable for kids, manages to capture the childlike, helter-skelter chaos and curiosity of the human mind better than any other animated film.
When there’s this much spice and food for thought on one plate, how are you expected to taste anything at all?
Kon is a spectacular filmmaker, although not quite of the same warm, humanistic nature as Hayao Miyazaki.
Paprika stays in your mind as pure freedom and pure exhilaration.
PAPRIKA adds quite a dash of spice to the anime genre and offers a fun ride.
Visually fantastic, logically flawed and incredibly dull. Just like your friend’s dreams.
The mostly 2-D animation is top-notch quality, and it is a fascinating idea.
You could sit through the film two or three times to nail down the details of the story, but the film isn't interesting enough to warrant a second look.
Some have suggested that taking drugs first would enhance the experience, but really, I don't see how hallucinogens could make the movie any weirder than it is.
Just go with it, drink in the rich and innovative images, and wish that you could remember your own dreams as well as you'll remember "Paprika."
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