INVITATION AU VOYAGE is an artistically bumptious film, peppered with images that nail themselves into your long-term memory. The story involves a popular singer who dies in a freak accident, electrocuted by an overhead light as she bathes in a tub of milk. Her distraught twin brother/lover(!) drains the milk into bottles, stuffs her body into a cello case, straps it to the top of his car and embarks on a road trip with an unstated destination. Encountering various odd characters during his journey, he periodically drinks the bottled milk, gradually becoming more and more obsessed with his lost loved-one...until he ultimately becomes her.
This film is something of an early-1980s time capsule, abounding with the music and fashions of the new wave movement, and the directorial tone is variably redolent of films by Eckhart Schmidt and Uli Edel.
7/10...Intriguing, and recommended.
This film is something of an early-1980s time capsule, abounding with the music and fashions of the new wave movement, and the directorial tone is variably redolent of films by Eckhart Schmidt and Uli Edel.
7/10...Intriguing, and recommended.