Pachyderme

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This cinematic tale opens surrealistically with a traffic jam caused by a wounded elephant Our heroine, Carice, abandons her car and walks trancelike through a wood to visit her husband in the hospital Along the way she meets a few odd characters, including a blind pig keeper and an alien looking baby The surreal encounters do not stop there The hospital is eerie and foreboding When Carice s whistling wakes up an apparently dead body in the morgue, she soon realizes that the aged cadaver she s talking to is her future self.Praise for Pachyderme Peeters tale of self discovery is enthralling in the author s hands, Cold War paranoia and thoughtfully subverted realist art provides commentary on other kinds of secrets, other kinds of betrayals and the conflict between duty and need Publishers Weekly starred review Peeters evocative artwork inspired equally, it seems, by classic Hollywood and the great horror comics of mid century makes every page eye catching Slate Download Pachyderme By Frederik Peeters – kino-fada.fr Here s the thing about Pachyderme it s a really good comic but it s also weird and abstract and right there and then there are people reading those two words and immediately switching off after deciding this book isn t for them and I don t want to turn people away from this kind of comic just because it s a little different It s totally accessible, it s definitely engrossing, and it s a real page turner So long as you re ok not knowing exactly what s happening at all times and can go with t Here s the thing about Pachyderme it s a really good comic but it s also weird and abstract and right there and then there are people reading those two words and immediately switching off after deciding this book isn t for them and I don t want to turn people away from this kind of comic just because it s a little different It s totally accessible, it s definitely engrossing, and it s a real page turner So long as you re ok not knowing exactly what s happening at all times and can go with the flow, you ll get a lot out of this small book A woman leaves her car in a traffic jam in the country after discovering a dead elephant is blocking the road She has to get to the nearby hospital because her husband has been in a terrible car accide...Not sure that I entirely get this one, but I liked the feel and style Lots of silent action , well paced, and intriguing storyline Lots of undercurrents in the plot, and much of the plot is left open for interpretation Will look forby this author.Beautiful book The one that stands out of the rest It really feels that this is a French book there is something gentle and mysterious about it I enjoyed the story and the only thing I regret is that the book is t...And yet the goal of this kind of story is to lead readers astray, to rob them of all landmarks, make them struggle with something that comes from within themselves but isn t always easily identifiable.I don t think Peeters himself could give us any explanations That s what s beautiful about it Above all, no explanations Things happen, always leading us towards understanding something beyond explanation.I want artists to take me far from every sensation I ve ever felt before, into territ And yet the goal of this kind of story is to lead readers astray, to rob them of all landmarks, make them struggle with something that comes from within themselves but isn t ...Peeters maturato, come disegnatore, dai tempi di pillole blu Quel suo stile debitore di Tardi come di Eisner si pulito e adesso sa essere molto efficace, con belle inquadrature e senza confusione La storia parte e si...I m hella confused damn.Peccato.Beautifully composed and illustrated Lynchian story, wildly bizarre, but never annoyingly so it s grounded in reality and resolved in the end just enough to be tantalizing.On sent une forte inspiration du cin ma dans Pachyderme Oui, au d part il y a une envie abstraite de dessiner des int rieurs Arts d co, des jupes qui ondulent en pousant la d marche des femmes Des attitudes, des fa ons de parler Et surtout le personnage du m decin, qui est quasiment le portrait fid le de l acteur John Barry Je voulais donner vie cette esp ce...Lynchian is one overused adjective when describing dreamlike narratives, but here it s totally invited A lynchian work isn t simply one that s weird or a bit oneiric, but rather one whose strangeness, whose surrealism is the actual release of tension between two opposites, usually one contained withing another And Pachyderme is probably one of the most lynchian works I ve read Up to a fault.Carice remains stuck in traffic on her way to the hospital where her husband s been taken after a drunk Lynchian is one overused adjective when describing dreamlike narratives, but here it s totally invited A lynchian work isn t simply one that s weird or a bit oneiric, but rather one whose strangeness, whose surrealism is the actual release of tension between tw...

Pachyderme
  • 13 October 2017
  • 90 pages
  • 2070627047
  • Frederik Peeters
  • Pachyderme