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Funeral Parade of Roses

Bara no soretsu (Funeral Parade of Roses)

1969

Toshio Matsumoto

Osamu Ogasawara, Shotari Akiyama, Kiyoshi Awazu, Emiko Azuma ...

7.4

644

Drama A gay son kills his mother and sleeps with his father in this Japanese version of the Oedipus legend.

	Author	Review
United States	John DeFore The Hollywood Reporter	"A cheeky and provocative experimental look at a largely unknown subculture (...) It should appeal to many of the same exotica-hungry cinephiles"	POS
United States	Simon Abrams rogerebert.com	"'Funeral Parade of Roses' is simultaneously a product of, and very much ahead of its time (...) A heady, emotionally resonant work of art (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Michael Nordine IndieWire	"Masterwork (...) The result is very much a trip, the kind you might not be able to make sense of at a very step of a way but later, after returning to reality, will be glad to have embarked on"	POS
United States	Vincent Canby The New York Times	"'Funeral Parade of Roses' is a mopey soap opera made by someone who has seen too many better movies."	NEU
United States	Jesse Cataldo Slant	"The film is a cross of freeform sketch comedy, gonzo documentary, and irony-soaked Warholian melodrama (...) Radical (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United Kingdom	Time Out	"Extraordinary (...) One of the most formally advanced films of the psychedelic decade."	POS
United States	Fred Camper Chicago Reader	"Matsumoto mixes documentary footage (...) and self-referential gestures (...) to create a near anarchic form that challenges authority"	POS

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