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BUBBLE BATH
1979
Director
György Kovásznai
Starring
Kornél Gelley
Albert Antalffy
Katalin Dobos
Kati Bontovits
Runtime
79 minutes
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Hungarian director György Kovásznai’s wildly idiosyncratic cartoon musical is one of the most indescribably strange, personal and totally irresistible animated features ever made.
A walking ball of anxieties, shop window decorator Zsolt bursts into the apartment of his fiancée’s best friend Anikó, paralyzed with fear at his impending marriage. Zsolt is like a stoned hippie alleycat, or an Eastern European Frank Zappa in a tux; medical student Anikó a more curvaceous and leggy post-modern Betty Boop—and both unsure of their attraction to each other, of the choices they’ve made, of what life has in store for them.
A truly insane mash-up of styles, from 1920s Art Deco to 1960s psychedelia to late 1970s louche Roxy Music decadence, BUBBLE BATH is incredibly restless and creative, the bohemian love-child of Bill Plympton’s off-kilter individualism and Ralph Bakshi’s wonderfully warped, rubbery visual style. In other words: it’s not quite like any animated film you’ve ever seen before.
A walking ball of anxieties, shop window decorator Zsolt bursts into the apartment of his fiancée’s best friend Anikó, paralyzed with fear at his impending marriage. Zsolt is like a stoned hippie alleycat, or an Eastern European Frank Zappa in a tux; medical student Anikó a more curvaceous and leggy post-modern Betty Boop—and both unsure of their attraction to each other, of the choices they’ve made, of what life has in store for them.
A truly insane mash-up of styles, from 1920s Art Deco to 1960s psychedelia to late 1970s louche Roxy Music decadence, BUBBLE BATH is incredibly restless and creative, the bohemian love-child of Bill Plympton’s off-kilter individualism and Ralph Bakshi’s wonderfully warped, rubbery visual style. In other words: it’s not quite like any animated film you’ve ever seen before.