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(15, 112 mins) Comedy/Fantasy/Drama/Romance.
CHICAGO-born rapper Boots Riley makes his feature film directorial debut with an audacious, wildly inventive and frequently uproarious satire about workplace culture, black exploitation and rampant capitalism.
It’s fair to say that Sorry To Bother You won’t be everyone’s tipple and there are madcap moments in Riley’s script when the wheels threaten to come off this runaway train of thoughts.
However, patience and gargantuan suspensions of disbelief reap rewards over almost two hours, which simultaneously bamboozle, delight and astound.
The writer-director has a penchant for visual gags in background detail like a rogue photocopier, which churns out reams of paper, creating a snowstorm of tumbling A4 around despairing employees. Some visual flourishes are impossible to miss. A stop-motion animated instruction video credited to Michel Dongry is a nod to inventive French director Michel Gondry and a flaccid pun on the male appendage, which fe
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