The Extraordinary Child applies his developing style to broad slapstick. His friends from the previous films and the director himself play out a riotous farce about an overgrown baby who steals his father’s cigars. Everyone mugs hilariously. The movie could be taken as another example of the Romantic notion of the artist as a monstrous child or misfit, or a parody of the same rather than the personal confessional statement seen so often in these film movements.
Stan Brakhage
Director, Writer
Grandma's Boy64%
Perfect Day69%
Triplet Trouble72%
Affairs of the Art61%
Louis C.K.: Hilarious78%
Hard Luck69%
Dennis the Menace58%
Chips Ahoy66%
Solid Serenade74%
Problem Child61%
Beau Hunks68%
The Tramp65%
Ferdinand the Bull67%
Our Wife70%
Party Central67%
The Flying Car67%
The Present75%
Problem Child 259%
Home Makeover68%
Shanghaied59%
