The sobriquet Sundance Movie conjures up some familiar elements: low budgets, a blend of drama and comedy, and usually some kind of predictably mapped out catharsis. However, when electronic musician Flying Lotus landed in Park City this year with “Kuso,” his film was genuinely uncategorizable. Weird, surreal, and gross, the movie prompted lots of raised eyebrows and walkouts, but has sustained as a must-see future midnight classic.
Featuring Hannibal Buress, Anders Holm, Tim Heidecker, and funk legend George Clinton, the plot, such as it is, looks at the lives at a bunch of twisted citizens in Los Angeles, but, really, “Kuso” is something you experience. Here’s the official synopsis:
Broadcasting through a makeshift network of discarded televisions, KUSO depicts the aftermath of Los Angeles’s worst earthquake nightmare. Viewers travel between screens and aftershocks into the twisted lives of the survived, experiencing a hallucination that is half-Cronenberg, half-Ren & Stimpy.
“Kuso” opens in Los Angeles and will hit the streaming site Shudder on July 21st.
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