MICHAEL SWAN: THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION OF LITTLE DIZZLE >>>
Attention film festival junkies: The Immaculate Conception of Little Dizzle, screening tonight at 7 p.m., is one of the Olympia Film Festival’s best. Check it:
Quirky, dark, and deeply humorous, Seattle filmmaker David Russo’s feature debut The Immaculate Conception of Little Dizzle is a stylish meditation on the meaning of garbage in our throwaway society. Dizzle’s an edgy, timely, bitterly funny allegory of life at the bottom.When Dory, a computer programmer, loses his job, he embarks on a spiritual quest and finds a new home with a misfit nighttime cleaning crew in an advertising agency’s corporate headquarters. High art meets higher comedy as Dory and his new friends become unwitting guinea pigs in a marketing scheme for self-heating cookies with radical after-effects.
Wildly strange and intensely inventive, Little Dizzle finds itself snug up against such great titles as Being John Malkovich and The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.
Dizzle director David Russo will be in attendance for a Q&A following tonight’s screening.
And now I return to the dark embrace of the movie theater. Olympia Film Festival huzzah!
[Capitol Theater, Saturday, Nov. 7, 7 p.m., $6-$8, 206 E. Fifth Ave., Olympia, 360.754.6670]