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What do you get when you cross Afro-futurism, Cold War paranoia, the dystopian world of Philip K. Dick and 60s exploitation cinema, along with a hefty dose of Lynchian surrealism? The answer: Jesus Shows You the Way to the Highway, the second feature by Miguel Llansó (Crumbs) and one of the most striking and original films you'll see all year.
The year is 2035, and Special Agent Gagano (Daniel Tadesse, Crumbs) dreams of leaving the CIA to open a business with his wife Malin (Gerda-Annette Allikas). Before he can hand in his resignation, however, a strange cyber virus attacks Psychobook, the CIA's operating system, forcing Gagano to enter cyberspace via virtual reality to combat the threat. Before long, however, the virus starts to reach out into the real world, destabilising the fragile socio-political order for its own ends, and Gagano, trapped in the VR world, must find a way out before it's too late.
Featuring encounters with an Irish-accented Joseph Stalin, a kung-fu-fighting Batman, and Jesus Christ himself, to name but a few, Jesus Shows You the Way to the Highway is absurd, audacious and like nothing you've ever experienced before.
2-DISC LIMITED EDITION CONTENTS
- High Definition Blu-ray™ (1080p) presentation
- New audio commentary by critics Alexandra Heller-Nicholas and Anton Bitel
- From Talinn with Love, a new visual essay by critic Will Webb exploring the influence of exploitation cinema on Jesus Shows You the Way to the Highway
- Exclusive audio interview with director Miguel Llansó, conducted by critic Josh Hurtado
- Crumbs (2015), Miguel Llansó's feature directorial debut and spiritual predecessor to Jesus Shows You the Way to the Highway (Limited Edition Exclusive)
- Chigger Ale (2013) and Night in the Wild Garden (2015), two short films by Miguel Llansó
- Original proof-of-concept trailer
- Theatrical trailer
- Image gallery
- Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Austin Hinderliter
- Double-sided fold-out poster
- Limited Edition illustrated collector's booklet featuring new writing on Jesus Shows You the Way to the Highway by Barry Forshaw and Crumbs by Anton Bitel
- Limited Edition of 2000 copies
- Arrow Video
- 83 mins approx
- 15
- English
- 2
- Arrow Video
- Miguel Llansó
- Daniel Tadesse
- Guillermo Llansó
- Agustín Mateo
- English SDH
- 2019
- B
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Arrow Films
What do you get when you cross Afro-futurism, Cold War paranoia, the dystopian world of Philip K. Dick and 60s exploitation cinema, along with a hefty dose of Lynchian surrealism? The answer: Jesus Shows You the Way to the Highway, the second feature by Miguel Llansó (Crumbs) and one of the most striking and original films you'll see all year.
The year is 2035, and Special Agent Gagano (Daniel Tadesse, Crumbs) dreams of leaving the CIA to open a business with his wife Malin (Gerda-Annette Allikas). Before he can hand in his resignation, however, a strange cyber virus attacks Psychobook, the CIA's operating system, forcing Gagano to enter cyberspace via virtual reality to combat the threat. Before long, however, the virus starts to reach out into the real world, destabilising the fragile socio-political order for its own ends, and Gagano, trapped in the VR world, must find a way out before it's too late.
Featuring encounters with an Irish-accented Joseph Stalin, a kung-fu-fighting Batman, and Jesus Christ himself, to name but a few, Jesus Shows You the Way to the Highway is absurd, audacious and like nothing you've ever experienced before.
2-DISC LIMITED EDITION CONTENTS
- High Definition Blu-ray™ (1080p) presentation
- New audio commentary by critics Alexandra Heller-Nicholas and Anton Bitel
- From Talinn with Love, a new visual essay by critic Will Webb exploring the influence of exploitation cinema on Jesus Shows You the Way to the Highway
- Exclusive audio interview with director Miguel Llansó, conducted by critic Josh Hurtado
- Crumbs (2015), Miguel Llansó's feature directorial debut and spiritual predecessor to Jesus Shows You the Way to the Highway (Limited Edition Exclusive)
- Chigger Ale (2013) and Night in the Wild Garden (2015), two short films by Miguel Llansó
- Original proof-of-concept trailer
- Theatrical trailer
- Image gallery
- Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Austin Hinderliter
- Double-sided fold-out poster
- Limited Edition illustrated collector's booklet featuring new writing on Jesus Shows You the Way to the Highway by Barry Forshaw and Crumbs by Anton Bitel
- Limited Edition of 2000 copies
- Arrow Video
- 83 mins approx
- 15
- English
- 2
- Arrow Video
- Miguel Llansó
- Daniel Tadesse
- Guillermo Llansó
- Agustín Mateo
- English SDH
- 2019
- B
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A movie that genuinely gives you something you've never seen before.
In that grand tradition of European and Asian rip-offs of hit films and genres (Turkish Star Wars, the Italian “077” spy films), “Jesus Shows You The Way To The Highway” feels like the knock off “Ready Player One” (only much better than that sounds). Two CIA agents enter the virtual world of the Psychobook operating system to battle a virus named Stalin - personified by an Irish-accented figure in a paper Joseph Stalin mask. On entering, the agents too adopt paper-masked avatars (Robert Redford and Richard Pryor) and are filmed in a creepy/crappy stop motion look. But then one of the agents (the fantastic Daniel Tadesse ), on his last mission before running away to run a pizza parlour/kick boxing studio with his Amazonian wife, becomes trapped in the system! Along the way we encounter Batfro (the fascist president of Ethiopia - dressed as the Adam West Batman) and a surf-dude Jesus Christ (undoubtedly a reference to Keanu Reeves’ messianic role in “The Matrix”). Director Miguel Llansó brings us his truly original vision with a great sense of humour and the absurd, visual flair, an eye for interesting and unusual locations and a healthy obsession with archaic technology. Also included is Miguel Llansó’s debut "Crumbs". Again starring Tadesse, this is a slower, more dreamlike meditation on a post-apocalyptic world, where a spaceship hangs lifeless in the sky, pop culture commodities (plastic play swords, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle key rings and Michael Jackson vinyl) are traded as sacred artefacts from a forgotten past, and Santa lives in the ball-return mechanism in a disused bowling alley. At just over an hour long, it doesn’t over stay it’s welcome, and the Ethiopian locations are so striking. Rounded off with extras and short films, Arrow have again introduced me to a new and exciting cinematic voice who I want to see more from. Recommended for lovers of strange and odd films everywhere.
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