The movie is set in a technologically developed but, at the same time, feudal world. Beautiful Duenna was created in order to carry out certain mission. However, she will be forced to choose between accomplishing the task she was created for and love.
Direction
Quay brothers' stop-motion: grotesque, gorgeous, unmatched.
Production
Hand-built miniature world, every gear dripping with decay.
Sound
Industrial ambience that crawls under your skin.
Director
Stephen Quay
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Based on a short story by Polish writer Stanislaw Lem, who famously hated most film adaptations of his work—wonder what he'd think of this one.
The Quay brothers spent years in obscurity before Christopher Nolan personally funded a theatrical retrospective; this 2010 short represents their late-career mastery still firing on all cylinders.
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