The Pied Piper (Deluxe Limited Edition) [Blu-ray] [US] Alex Winter Sympathy for Mr

Sympathy for Mr

In the year 2037

where he is hired to play stand-in roles for strangers seeking connection

New video essays by film critics Geoffrey O’Brien and Sheila O’Malley

the Academy Award-winning director of The Shape Of Water

The Pied Piper (Deluxe Limited Edition) [Blu-ray] [US] Alex Winter Sympathy for MrDirector Ji Bartas stop motion animated masterpiece, based on The Pied Piper of Hamelin, is set in a dark and twisted medieval village of narrow streets and weird Gothic arches, half CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI and half Jan van Eyck. The money obsessed citizens, carved out of wood blocks and speaking in an onomatopoeic babble, are like George Grosz caricatures, literally spouting coins from their mouths instead of words. The rats are far more organic and