
On the Marriage Broker Joke as Cited by Sigmund Freud in Wit and Its Relation to the Unconscious, or Can the Avant-Garde Artist Be Wholed?
“Freud established that jokes were structurally akin to dreams in their use of condensation, displacement, representation by opposites, punning and ‘nonsense’. All of these strategies are much in evidence in (Land’s) marvelously duplicitous ON THE MARRIAGE BROKER JOKE… [...] so clever and original a filmmaker as to make most others – not to mention his critics – seem flat-footed by comparison. ON THE MARRIAGE BROKER JOKE harks back to Bunuel’s early work. Not only is it structured like a dream and filled with sexual imagery, but like Un Chien Andalou, it smacks of being an insider’s joke played upon the avant-garde. Where Bunuel used the insights of psychoanalysis to satirize Christianity, Land– with an almost equal perversity – reverses the process and uses Christianity to send up Freud.” – J. Hoberman, American Film
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- Theatrical (limited)Syracuse, New York1 Jan 1977
United KingdomGB
- Theatrical (limited)London11 Feb 2005
AustriaAT
- Theatrical (limited)Austrian Filmmuseum25 Jan 2005
- Theatrical (limited)Vienna International Film Festival28 Oct 2009
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- Theatrical (limited)Norwegian Short Film Festival1 Jun 2005
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- Theatrical (limited)Centro de Cultura Contemporánea de Barcelona10 Mar 2005
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On the Marriage Broker Joke as Cited by Sigmund Freud in Wit and Its Relation to the Unconscious, or Can the Avant-Garde Artist Be Wholed? was released on 1 January 1977.
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