El Doctor

MOVIE #1,552 • 🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿 • 04.17.24 SUZAN PITT 🕳️ DIRECTOR FOCUS This seems to be a bit less focused than the wonderful post-hiatus Joy Street (this came out over a decade after that, as well): scenes play out like disconnected visual ideas and the addition of dialogue is not really to its benefit. Still, it’s wildly creative as usual and a fun watch. I didn’t quite grasp the depth put forth in Pitt’s own artist statement — “This visual animated poem travels between desperation and dark comedy and asks the question “Would at the moment of death we realize the beauty of those things we abhorred in life?”” — and perhaps part of the divide is due to the fact that this was written by somebody else (Blue Kraning, who made a handful of well-received indies in the early 00s). Definitely worth checking out if you enjoy Pitt’s other work, though.

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A melancholic physician in a Mexican hospital who prefers drinking to doctoring is transformed by the visit of a psychedelic saint. He begins to perform miracles on an odd assortment of hospital patients. It was released on May 10, 2006.