Bubble Bath

BUBBLE BATH (HABFRD) 1979, 79 min. Hungarian director Gyrgy Kovsznais wildly idiosyncratic animated musical is one of the most indescribably strange, personal and totally irresistible cartoon features ever made. Shop window decorator Zsolt (voiced by Kornl Gelley, with Albert Antalffy singing) bursts into the apartment of his fiances best friend Anik (voiced by Vera Venzcel, with Kati Bontovits singing), paralyzed with fear at his impending marriage. Zsolt is like an anxious hippie alley cat, or an Eastern European Frank Zappa in a tux; medical student Anik a more curvaceous and leggy post-modern Betty Boop and both unsure of their attraction to each other, of the choices theyve made, of what life has in store for them. A truly insane and surprisingly sexy mash-up of styles, from 1920s Art Deco to 1960s Psychedelia to late 1970s louche Roxy Music decadence, BUBBLE BATH is incredibly restless and creative, the bohemian love-child of Bill Plympt