SURREALISM & ITS OFFSHOOTS

“Surrealism is based on the belief in the superior reality of certain forms of previously neglected associations, in the omnipotence of dream, in the disinterested play of thought”.

The boundaries between surreal films and magical realism or films with a dreamlike ambiance at times can be blurred, the meaning of the term surrealism has become diluted, now often used to describe films that are simply weird or vaguely dreamlike.

Here’s professor Frank P Tomasulo on mubi: "Even though de Lautreamont was a poet, his striking image of the surreal as “the encounter of an umbrella and a sewing machine on...