If you loved Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life, try Pastoral: To Die in the Country

A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.

What they share

Theyboth carry the cult, surreal, weird mood tags, and they sit in Drama territory. If that's the register that drew you to Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.

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What Pastoral: To Die in the Country is

Amarcord if autobiographical and surreal. A filmmaker confronts his past by staging scenes from his youth in the Japanese countryside. Terayama's signature theatricality and visual experimentation are on full display.

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