A Strange And Hypnotic Trailer For Raul Perrone's SAMURAY-S

It's samurai fiction by way of German expressionism in the trailer for Samuray-S, a cinematic oddity from Argentine director Raul Perrone. Our own Patrick Holzapfel caught this one when it screened in Hamburg - check the links below for his review - and with it now making its local debut in Mar Del Plata we've found a striking trailer for the piece. Here's how the festival describes it:

The owner of a whorehouse decides to take revenge on the samurai that killed his son. A young woman insists in her love for a noble samurai, even though her grandmother wants her to marry a villainous samurai. After having spent a long time on the battlefront, another samurai returns from the war and fails to acknowledge his wife. With an image free from any kind of realism, Perrone builds up a film from the visual somersaults of silent film, where synchronized words didn't stop the action, in a string of expressive pale faces that create narratives that border on expressionistic hallucination. Samuray-s succeeds in combining image kaleidoscopes with texts of delicate poetry at a pace where a stylized poetry on the verge of abstraction coexists with a certain graphic violence that the film contains in its unusual oscillation.

Take a look at the trailer below.