human nature
dir: michel gondry, 2001 93 mins uk premiere
super sneak special screening of visually inventive gondry’s daring debut feature. an adaptation of charlie kaufman's script produced by spike jonze, the duo behind being john malkovich and adaptation. a hair-raising, odd-ball comedy led by a superbly solid cast [tim robbins, patricia arquette, rhys ifans,] clearly having fun with the wildly fertile script. tim robbins is researcher, nathan bronfman, with an unhealthy obsession for perfect manners who’s life’s project is ‘to civilize’ a wild man. cue the
feraland sex obsessed puff [ifans] and arquette as nathan's girlfriend lila, an abnormally hairy woman who is divided between her desire to be normal and her true underlying nature. full of explosive scenes of visual brilliance – a delectably insane first feature.