The Extraordinary Child

(1954)

★ 5.9 IMDb · 9 votes

Genres: Comedy

Year: 1954

Runtime: 13 мин

Country: United States of America

Director: Stan Brakhage

Cast: Robert Benson, Stan Brakhage, Yvonne Fair, Lawrence Jordan, Walter Newcomb

Plot

The Extraordinary Child applies his developing style to broad slapstick. His friends from the previous films and the director himself play out a riotous farce about an overgrown baby who steals his father’s cigars. Everyone mugs hilariously. The movie could be taken as another example of the Romantic notion of the artist as a monstrous child or misfit, or a parody of the same rather than the personal confessional statement seen so often in these film movements.