Review of The Grandmother (1970) by Anna B — 30 Jan 2011
The Grandmother is a bizarre little surrealistic short film that blends Terry Gilliam's Monte Python animation together with Luis Bunuel's early surrealist short (Un chien andalou and L'Age D'or).
In this early film, Lynch blends abstract animation together with surrealistic, live-action film to create a fantastic parable about the nature of dysfunctional families and the need for love. Because of his apathetic and even absuive family, the protagonist child must grow a grandmother from a seed in a true body-horror fashion in order to inject genuine love into his love.
Pretentious and heavy-handed, The Grandmother is still a short film that gesures towards the later great works of its director.
This review of The Grandmother (1970) was written by Anna B on 30 Jan 2011.
The Grandmother has generally received positive reviews.
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