Lost Classics: Zeroville

In one of the more ‘irregular’ series of posts on Boicozine, we present another awesome film that has, through no fault of it’s own, been relegated to the dusty archive of forgotten cine classiques. Zeroville, or to use it’s correct Russian title, Город Зеро (Zero City) [iMDB] is a droll yet hypnotic film whose steady tone only highlights the escalating absurdity of the story and the bizarre mini tableaux (there is actually a number of scenes featuring a few literal tableaux) that populate it. Sadly, near impossible to find and rarely on the telly, you’ll have to make do with a handful of YouTube clips for now, like the one below, or you could check out more accessible films made by director, Karen Shakhnazarov [russia-ic.com]. If you get a chance to see this one either on telly or at the cinema, pop along (even if just for the scene in the restaurant when our main character is served a cake that bears a remarkable resemblance to his own head). There’s nowt like it.