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The feature, from experimental filmmaker Matthew Rankin, is an absurdist comedy set in an imaginary Canada where French and Farsi are the country’s two official languages.
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Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Jan. 2025
The show consists of Mulaney and his co-stars, Richard Kind, Renée Elise Goldsberry, and Fred Armisen, performing Rich’s absurdist, poignant love stories (most of which were previously published in this magazine).
—Naomi Fry, The New Yorker, 6 Jan. 2025
Of what relevance is an absurdist fable, written in German, about a sad man who transforms into an insect, to an American teenager in the twenty-first century?
—Harper's Magazine, 2 Jan. 2025
The stark beauty of Samuel Beckett’s absurdist classic, part music hall romp, part abstract painting, was awakened in a production starring two gifted comics who didn’t overplay their slapstick hands, Rainn Wilson and Aasif Mandvi.
—Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 9 Dec. 2024
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Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Jan. 2025
The show consists of Mulaney and his co-stars, Richard Kind, Renée Elise Goldsberry, and Fred Armisen, performing Rich’s absurdist, poignant love stories (most of which were previously published in this magazine).
—Naomi Fry, The New Yorker, 6 Jan. 2025
Of what relevance is an absurdist fable, written in German, about a sad man who transforms into an insect, to an American teenager in the twenty-first century?
—Harper's Magazine, 2 Jan. 2025
The stark beauty of Samuel Beckett’s absurdist classic, part music hall romp, part abstract painting, was awakened in a production starring two gifted comics who didn’t overplay their slapstick hands, Rainn Wilson and Aasif Mandvi.
—Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 9 Dec. 2024
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“Absurdist.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/absurdist. Accessed 22 Jan. 2025.
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