Happy Lamento poster

Happy Lamento

0.0(0)20181h 33m0

On the one hand, the beyond-Tropicália surreal, wild, ecstatic universe of Khavn de la Cruz, the Philippines’ internationally most venerated underground filmmaker. On the other, the Frankfurt School dialectics of Alexander Kluge, self-proclaimed arrière-guard eternal of 1960s modernist moviedom, Gandalf of all essay cinema. For Happy Lamento, Kluge mixed some of his weirder TV skits on electricity, the circus, revolution and early cinema (featuring Fassbinder-regular Peter Berling, theatre genius Heiner Müller, and DaDaism’s last man standing, Helge Schneider, among others) with some of the more outrageous scenes from Khavn’s 2016 Ang Napakaigsing Buhay Ng Alipato. Some 2017 G20 shots of Merkel and Trump et al inject the already heady brew with current affairs urgency.

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German
  • found footage

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  • GermanyDE

    • Theatrical20 Jun 2019
  • ItalyIT

    • Theatrical11 Sept 2018
  • South KoreaKR

    • PremiereJeonju International Film Festival4 May 2019

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Happy Lamento was released on 11 September 2018.

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