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The Living Wake
Comedy - 2010
6.4
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A dark comedy set in a timeless storybook universe. Self-proclaimed artist and genius, K. Roth Binew, has one day to live. He has enlisted his best and only friend, Mills Joquin, to take him around on a bicycle powered rickshaw. In a final attempt to probe life’s deepest mysteries, Binew endures one ridiculous trial after the next. He concludes his day with a final performance, his living wake. On a makeshift stage in an open field, Binew’s friends and enemies gather to witness his madness one final time.
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Rated:
PG-13
Runtime:
91 min
Release date:
14 May 2010
Budget:
$0
Revenue:
$0
Awards:
3 wins.

Top Critics Reviews

fresh:
In all, it's a peculiar piece of absurdist entertainment that occupies a singular niche in American indie cinema.
– Ted Fry,
Seattle Times,
3 Jun 2010
fresh:
In the end, however, pic defies all categorization, joining a small pantheon of pics including "Withnail & I" and Peter Greenaway's "Drowning byNumbers" that whistle past the graveyard with aplomb.
– Robert Koehler,
Variety,
21 May 2010
fresh:
Sol Tryon's The Living Wake seems but a protracted act of stultifying self-indulgence -- but then maybe that's the point.
– Kevin Thomas,
Los Angeles Times,
20 May 2010
rotten:
Strains to accommodate its daft premise and pontificating lead.
– Jeannette Catsoulis,
New York Times,
14 May 2010
rotten:
This is a terminally whimsical vanity project that would probably have been a chore to sit through even in its original intended format, a 20-minute stage monologue.
– Lou Lumenick,
New York Post,
14 May 2010
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