Funeral Parade of Roses - 1969 - NTSC - Toshio Matsumoto (JP)

Stanley Kubrik has said that his visual and sonic ideas for “A Clockwork Orange” were inspired by this film.

Funeral Parade of Roses comes to us from a moment when cinema set itself to test, and even eradicate, the boundaries between fiction and reality, desire and experience; consequently, the film shares a kinship with such other 1969 works as Masahiro Shinoda’s Double Suicide and Ingmar Bergman’s A Passion [The Passion of Anna]. Yet Matsumoto achieves a zig-zag modulation between pathos and hilarity that makes his picture utterly unique: a filmic howl in the face of social, moral, and artistic convention.

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