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The Extraordinary Child
UNITED STATES · 1954

The Extraordinary Child

Stan Brakhage
slapstick comedy childishness and regression artistic identity social misfits parody
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Synopsis

The Extraordinary Child applies his developing style to broad slapstick. His friends from the previous films and the director himself play out a riotous farce about an overgrown baby who steals his father’s cigars. Everyone mugs hilariously. The movie could be taken as another example of the Romantic notion of the artist as a monstrous child or misfit, or a parody of the same rather than the perso

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