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PAPRIKA Series: The 44th New York Film Festival [Sept 29 - Oct 15 2006] Director: Satoshi Kon, Country: Japan, Release: 2006, Runtime: 89 If Japan’s most famous anime filmmaker is Hayao Miyazaki, the most sophisticated is probably Satoshi Kon, whose movies tackle the anxiety and fragmentation of Japanese life, especially its pop culture. His new movie plays like a head-on collision between Hello Kitty and Philip K. Dick. The plot starts with a machine that lets therapists enter patients’ dreams: When it’s stolen, all hell breaks loose, and only a woman nicknamed “Paprika” seems able to stop it. Kon is a brilliant director by any standard, and as the characters shuttle from dream to dream, nightmare to nightmare, Paprika becomes a thrilling tour-de-force of visual invention – every frame is packed with imagination. This delightful movie is bursting with ideas about Japanese repression, multiple identities, collective dreams and the dark side of the country’s love of Cute. Screening at Alice Tully Hall, north side of 65th Street west of Broadway.

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