Allegro non troppo - ACMI Cinemas June 22, 2007

Italian animator Bruno Bozzetto spoofs Disney's animated classic Fantasia (1940) in the weird, experimental and unabashedly imaginative Allegro non troppo. With a decidedly adult sensibility and a darker sense of humour, the film strings together colourful studies of loneliness, loss, and social absurdity with a coarse, doodling line that wouldn't be out of place in Mad magazine. Firmly of its decade and flavoured strongly of trippy spectacle, Bozzetto's stream-of-consciousness vignettes are both witty and smartly conceived. Featuring the work of six giants of classical music, Allegro non troppo ponders the absence of permanence with a quirky sense of fun.

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