Monkey Town
58 N 3rd St
Wburg
718.384.1369
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The Taste of Tea
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Wednesday Jan 16, 2008 (8:30pm)
Friday Jan 18, 2008 (10pm)
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- Price
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FREE ($10 food or drink minimum)
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Writer/director Katsuhito Ishii crafted the anime segment in 2003's Kill Bill: Vol. 1, and that same hypnagogic aesthetic swells in this live-action ramshackle fable about a family residing in the Japanese countryside. Mother creates anime when not tending to her flock; Father practices hypnotherapy on his family; Daughter is mirrored by her 60-foot doppelgänger; Son goes too ga-ga for his cute classmate; Uncle records truly awful pop songs with a straight face; and Grandfather is biblically eccentric. At once sonorous and slapstick, The Taste of Tea is awash in the goodwill that can only be found in an idyll in which nothing extraordinary takes place.
