A Journey Into Bliss (2004)

The film deals loosely with the adventures of the grizzled Gustav who captains a ship – a giant floating ‘snailboat’ – with a crew of talking animals and lumbering sailors in blackface. It unspools like a perverse children’s story book, all at once cuddly cute, grotesquely obscene and beyond absurd as normal narrative logic shatters, giving way to an episodic, free-associative structure that one critic likened to “cinematic memory association.” (joergbuttgereit.com)

Released April 16, 2004 73 min None+

Genres: Comedy, Fantasy

Keywords: imdb.vomiting, imdb.urination, imdb.absurdism, imdb.surrealism, imdb.splatter, imdb.sperm, imdb.snail + 14 more, imdb.rabbit, imdb.palace, imdb.owl, imdb.king, imdb.island, imdb.gold, imdb.frog, imdb.fairy-tale, imdb.dictator, imdb.bright-color, imdb.brain, imdb.bear, soundmix.dolby-digital, aspectratio.1-85-1