Writers-Director David O. Russell orchestrates a brilliant ensemble of oddball, mugging eccentrics through an ostensible political farce about 1930s fascistic anti-New Deal politics. The farcical mugging and high jinks lighten the dramatization of one phase of far Right anti democratic conspiracy with ominous resonance for our times. A wonderfully rich experience once one adjusts to the unusual style of cartoonist faces, unorthodox characters and ithernivelties the way movie viewes were briefly accustomed to doing during the innovative years of, New Wave, Cine! A Novo and New American cinema. Reminiscent of like a variant of "The Great McGinty" as visually idiosyncratic as prime Fellini and a as as ultimately seriousas A Costa-Gravas. The mist politically revealing US film since Edward Norton's similarly under appreciated "Motherless Brooklyn."