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SYMBOL
 | Moviehouse Dublin Road
Thursday 29 April 9.00pm
£6.50/£6.00
|  | | | |  | | | | | | | | | | | | Director: Hitoshi Matsumoto /Japan / 2009 / 93 mins / Cert:15 / Print source: Umedia | | | | | | 
| | | | | | | | A Japanese man wakes up alone in a brightly illuminated white room with no windows or doors. When he presses a mysteriously phallic protuberance that appears on one wall, a pink toothbrush materializes from nowhere, clattering to the floor and setting in motion a genuinely bizarre chain of events.
Soon the imprisoned man is engaged in absurd and hilarious attempts to escape the gleaming room, releasing random objects from the walls, creating a life sized mouse trap game in which a rope, a toilet plunger and an earthenware jug full of sushi might just be the keys to his escape.
Meanwhile, in a dusty town, a green masked Mexican wrestler known as Escargot Man prepares for an important match. His family gathers around him, worried about his seeming impassivity before battle.
"It’s hard to pigeonhole Symbol in any particular genre, but I would best describe it as a live action Looney Tunes cartoon on crack." SOUNDONSIGHT
"In his new film Matsumoto builds further upon the tradition of comedy in an ambitious work that seeks to carry his sense of humor beyond cultural boundaries. Symbol covers deep philosophical ground, which under Matsumoto’s hand results in a unique film of tremendous impact." TIFF
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