"Dandy'' is a poseur, a dim and grungy piece of experimental exhibitionism from Germany. Technically amateurish and philosophically blowsy, "Dandy'' kicks off the venerable Vagabond Theatre's new direction.
The Wilshire Boulevard revival house will now screen art-house fare, hopefully better than this filmic flotsam.
A shrill barrage of non-linear images and abstract acts punctuated by the musical-dance morass of Nick Cave, Nina Hagen, Yoshito Ohno, among equally untalented others, "Dandy'' is bargain-basement underground filmmaking -- low on ideas, style and backbone.
Kindergarten counterculture, "Dandy'' is an unimaginative, monotonic grind revved up only intermittently by its sophomoric shock shots and its wide-ranging geographical images.
Times Square, Marrakech, Cairo, Himalaya, Tokyo are among the disparate settings for this dark hodgepodge of philosophical mumblings and guitar strummings. While it has minor appeal as a travelogue, this techno-jumbo struts as bigger stuff, repeatedly pontificating about the nature of death.
Example: A female punker is asked the burning question, "What would you do if you had only 10 days left to live?'' She replies, "I'd like to be stoned.''
The camera then lingers over a stone desert, blearily focusing on a running coyote. Such is the thematic and visual level of this punk gunk.
Peter Sempel's directorial style, and we use the term loosely, is characterized only by its grim, in-your-face tonality. The sloppy transitions, the underlit images, the off-kilter framings are not so much a marriage of style with substance but seem rather a cop-out to have neither.
DANDY
Pandora, Peter Sempel
Producers Niko Brucher, Pandora-film, Peter Sempel
Director Peter Sempel
Directors of photography Frank Blasberg, Jonas Scholz, Norimichi Kasamatsu, Peter Sempel
Editor Wolf Ingo Romer
Sound Drago Hari, Takashi Endo, Kai Wessel, Susanne Greuner, Stefanie Hesse, Roxana Herbst
Color/Stereo
Cast: Blixa Bargeld, Nick Cave, Dieter Meier, Yoshito Ohno, Nina Hagen, Lene Lovich, Rattenjenny, Imke Lagemann
Running time -- 89 minutes
No MPAA rating
(c) The Hollywood Reporter...
The Wilshire Boulevard revival house will now screen art-house fare, hopefully better than this filmic flotsam.
A shrill barrage of non-linear images and abstract acts punctuated by the musical-dance morass of Nick Cave, Nina Hagen, Yoshito Ohno, among equally untalented others, "Dandy'' is bargain-basement underground filmmaking -- low on ideas, style and backbone.
Kindergarten counterculture, "Dandy'' is an unimaginative, monotonic grind revved up only intermittently by its sophomoric shock shots and its wide-ranging geographical images.
Times Square, Marrakech, Cairo, Himalaya, Tokyo are among the disparate settings for this dark hodgepodge of philosophical mumblings and guitar strummings. While it has minor appeal as a travelogue, this techno-jumbo struts as bigger stuff, repeatedly pontificating about the nature of death.
Example: A female punker is asked the burning question, "What would you do if you had only 10 days left to live?'' She replies, "I'd like to be stoned.''
The camera then lingers over a stone desert, blearily focusing on a running coyote. Such is the thematic and visual level of this punk gunk.
Peter Sempel's directorial style, and we use the term loosely, is characterized only by its grim, in-your-face tonality. The sloppy transitions, the underlit images, the off-kilter framings are not so much a marriage of style with substance but seem rather a cop-out to have neither.
DANDY
Pandora, Peter Sempel
Producers Niko Brucher, Pandora-film, Peter Sempel
Director Peter Sempel
Directors of photography Frank Blasberg, Jonas Scholz, Norimichi Kasamatsu, Peter Sempel
Editor Wolf Ingo Romer
Sound Drago Hari, Takashi Endo, Kai Wessel, Susanne Greuner, Stefanie Hesse, Roxana Herbst
Color/Stereo
Cast: Blixa Bargeld, Nick Cave, Dieter Meier, Yoshito Ohno, Nina Hagen, Lene Lovich, Rattenjenny, Imke Lagemann
Running time -- 89 minutes
No MPAA rating
(c) The Hollywood Reporter...
- 11/1/1992
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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