The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
Why this pick
Like The Fall, it turns storytelling into a lavish escape, moving between a fragile real world and wildly theatrical fantasy with melancholy beneath the spectacle.
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IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
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Why this pick
Like The Fall, it turns storytelling into a lavish escape, moving between a fragile real world and wildly theatrical fantasy with melancholy beneath the spectacle.
Why this pick
Its handmade visual inventions and porous boundary between imagination and lived experience echo The Fall’s playful, emotionally vulnerable dream logic.
Why this pick
A child’s encounter with an ornate imagined realm is intertwined with harsh reality, delivering the same fable-like beauty and lingering emotional gravity.
Why this pick
This is another visually extravagant meditation on why people invent stories, balancing storybook adventures with a tender, bittersweet human frame.
Why this pick
Its painterly compositions, mythic episodes, and unhurried, ambiguous journey offer a more austere but similarly immersive encounter with legend and inner life.
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01 / THE STORY
In a hospital on the outskirts of 1920s Los Angeles, an injured stuntman begins to tell a fellow patient, a little girl with a broken arm, a fantastic story about 5 mythical heroes. Thanks to his fractured state of mind and her vivid imagination, the line between fiction and reality starts to blur as the tale advances.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
Alexandria

Roy Walker / Blue Bandit

Nurse Evelyn / Sister Evelyn
Luigi / One Legged Actor
Darwin / Orderly

Alexandria's Father / Blue Bandit
Mystic / Orange Picker
Otto