The Extraordinary Adventures of Mr. West in the Land of the Bolsheviks
- warm
- kinetic
- funny
An ignorant and prejudiced American’s visit of Soviet Russia goes off the rails after his luggage is stolen and he is separated from his bodyguard.
Our read · The Extraordinary Adventures of Mr. West in the Land of the Bolsheviks (1924) reads as a warm, breathless, inventive comedy · silent · satire entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.
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