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    I Yam What I Yam... The Invention

    28'

    2013-01-01

    5

    Fantasy,Drama

    Overview:

    I Yam What I Yam...L'invenzione' is centered around the collision of two films originally shot on the same location; Emidio Greco's 'L'invenzione di Morel' (1974) and Robert Altman's 'Popeye' (1980). In Greco's film a shipwrecked man stumbles upon an ultra-modernist mansion. In it he finds a group of people trapped in a perpetual present facilitated by a machine that's capable of reproducing reality. Sant's reinvention of this film is shot on the same location, follows the same storyline, but occupies another world. In place of the mansion, he finds himself in 'Sweethaven' - the set of Altman's 'Popeye'. Though there is no trace of Greco's set, Altman's 'Sweethaven' remains - echoing Greco's plot by existing as an open-air museum where costumed entertainers re-enact scenes.

    DirectingPeter SantWritingPeter Sant

    Cast

    1

    Main character

    Emanuel Cutajar

    1

    Olive Oyl

    Ana-Maria Grosu

    1

    Popeye

    Theodore Zammit

    1

    Bluto

    Gaetano Zauri

    1

    Popeye #2

    Daniel Casingena

    1

    Village worker

    Colin Magro

    Details:

    • Budget: 0
    • Home page
    • Revenue: 0
    • List of countries:
      1. Malta
    • List of languages:
      1. English
    • List of companies:
      1. Hereonin
    • Vote Count: 3
    • Popularity: 0.745
    • Status: Released
    • Original title:I Yam What I Yam... L'invenzione

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