Mads Brügger's feature directorial debut, The Red Chapel, took a Tom Green-via-Sacha Baron-Cohen approach to infiltrating North Korea, with the director finagling himself and two comics -- both adopted from North Korea, one with spastic paralysis -- into the country. Given that it's not hard to make an actual absurd environment appear absurd on screen, he emerged with fairly pointless cringe comedy: plenty of awkwardness all round but no real surprises. So it's interesting to hear Brügger admi...
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Filmmaker Magazine - 19 Nov 2021 19:25
Mads Brügger's feature directorial debut, The Red Chapel, took a Tom Green-via-Sacha Baron-Cohen approach to infiltrating North Korea, with the director finagling himself and two comics -- both adopted from North Korea, one with spastic paralysis -- into the country. Given that it's not hard to make an actual absurd environment appear absurd on screen, he emerged with fairly pointless cringe comedy: plenty of awkwardness all round but no real surprises. So it's interesting to hear Brügger admi...
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