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Dressed in a white denim jacket and jeans, Armisen didn’t do a traditional stand-up set but took the audience of more than 800 people on an absurdist, entertaining ride.
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Sal Pizarro, The Mercury News, 6 Nov. 2024
Most of the sketches are short, even by contemporary standards — 2-3 minutes long — and are absurdist in a way that feels rather dated.
—Meredith Blake, Los Angeles Times, 18 Oct. 2024
As a bonus: Already the ne plus ultra of mother-daughter cringe comedy, Kath & Kim manages nevertheless to up the absurdist ante with the fact that Turner and Craig are just one year apart in age — a surreal detail echoed by one of today’s own cringe cult comedies, PEN15.
—Alexis Gunderson, Vulture, 8 Oct. 2024
Canada Experimental filmmaker Rankin charmed Cannes Directors’ Fortnight audiences with this offbeat absurdist satire that affectionately borrows the tropes of Iranian arthouse cinema to imagine a parallel-universe Winnipeg where Farsi is the dominant tongue.
—Guy Lodge, Variety, 2 Nov. 2024
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Sal Pizarro, The Mercury News, 6 Nov. 2024
Most of the sketches are short, even by contemporary standards — 2-3 minutes long — and are absurdist in a way that feels rather dated.
—Meredith Blake, Los Angeles Times, 18 Oct. 2024
As a bonus: Already the ne plus ultra of mother-daughter cringe comedy, Kath & Kim manages nevertheless to up the absurdist ante with the fact that Turner and Craig are just one year apart in age — a surreal detail echoed by one of today’s own cringe cult comedies, PEN15.
—Alexis Gunderson, Vulture, 8 Oct. 2024
Canada Experimental filmmaker Rankin charmed Cannes Directors’ Fortnight audiences with this offbeat absurdist satire that affectionately borrows the tropes of Iranian arthouse cinema to imagine a parallel-universe Winnipeg where Farsi is the dominant tongue.
—Guy Lodge, Variety, 2 Nov. 2024
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“Absurdist.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/absurdist. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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