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3.5
72 Ratings

Impolex

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Directed by Alex Ross Perry
United States, 2009
Comedy, Action, Avant-Garde

Synopsis

At the end of WWII, the United States sent soldiers across Europe to locate and retrieve the rockets and rocket science that Germany perfected before losing the war.

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Impolex Directed by Alex Ross Perry
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Awards & Festivals

Locarno International Film Festival

2012

Bratislava International Film Festival

2016

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Cast & Crew

Articles from the Notebook

Narcissists and Close-Ups: Alex Ross Perry’s “Listen Up Philip”

Alex Ross Perry’s portrait of toxic narcissism is a major work, equally sharp and sensitive.
Ignatiy Vishnevetsky
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Interview with Alex Ross Perry

Discussing the limitations of film school education, his work on The Color Wheel, and the advantages of shooting Listen Up Philip.
Ricky D'Ambrose

The Lower Depths: Alex Ross Perry and “The Color Wheel”

The Color Wheel is 83 minutes long. About 9 minutes and 40 seconds of those 83 minutes (i.e. roughly 1/9th) are taken up by a single…
Ignatiy Vishnevetsky
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CUFF 09: “Impolex” (Perry, USA)

 

Small festivals are as full of surprises as big ones are full of letdowns. Impolex screened only once at the Chicago Underground…
Ignatiy Vishnevetsky

Critics reviews

Poking at the 20th century’s densest and nuttiest American mega-novel with the skinniest of sticks, Perry’s movie is a bit of a sleepwalk—nothing much happens, as if it were a daydream the iconic Tyrone Slothrophad between lines in the novel’s “Zone” chapters. This quality, of course, can only be appreciated if you don’t let guileless amateurishness, or chronic mumbling, ruin your evening.
July 13, 2011
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To call Tyrone castrated by comparison is both grossly reductive and too violent: Impolex isn’t about a man who can’t find his dick so much as it is an internalization of the problematic dick semiotics of today’s young adults. If everything’s a blithe dick joke then where does that leave the male psyche? What’s left in its place is inert, to be sure, but Impolex ekes out stirring whispers of tender masculine grief.
July 12, 2011
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The master here, the man who provides director Alex Ross Perry with the tools, is Luc Moullet. This is less a question of emulation than foundation (further foundations: as a final half-joke, the film ends with a bibliography that includes, amongst a list of World War II-related research materials, Gravity’s Rainbow), and the cornerstones seem to be Moullet’s A Girl Is a Gun (for its approach to a genre) and The Smugglers (for its back-and-forth plot and settings).
September 09, 2009
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