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Build a Ship, Sail to Sadness

  • Film
  • 3 out of 5 stars
  • Recommended
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Time Out says

3 out of 5 stars
A benign mix of culture-clash comedy and confrontational documentary, this shot-on-video performance piece is an art-damaged complement to Borat. Socially stunted, gas-huffing Swede Vincent (Aronson) mopeds around rural Scotland drumming up support for a “mobile disco,” which he claims will alleviate the locals’ loneliness. The Scots insist that he’s projecting; Laurin Federlein’s washed-out, eerily isolating compositions and Aronson’s heartachy folk ditties bear them out. If some measure of existential anguish is evoked, though, so is mild condescension.
Written by Mark Holcomb

Cast and crew

  • Director:Laurin Federlein
  • Cast:
    • Magnus Aronson
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