Christmas was always celebrated big0time in the Funnie family - a humongous tree, decorations, gifts - but this year things just weren't same, because Mom was expecting a baby. The favorite family traditions were lost in the excitement. So Doug and Funnie decided to have a secret Christmas of their own. But things got really wild when Daddy Funnie called from the hospital with some pretty great news - a baby sister had arrived! and it turned out to be the best Christmas ever!
Set on May 18, 1993—the day on which Denmark voted to join the European Union, just a few months after they'd voted not to do so—the film follows eight or so disparate Danes (an escaped mental patient, a newly-famous singer, a business executive, and their assorted families and cohorts) as they unwittingly alter one another's lives, for better and for worse.
BEAUTIFUL FUNERALS is a hand-painted double-step-printed film composed of 1) dense blackness variously punctuated by brilliantly colored jewel/flower-like shapes AND 2) interruptive white sections which are fuzzily dotted with blurred whites and criss-crossed by black "brushstrokes" and hard-edge straight black and white lines.
Filmmaker Ernesto Rimoch looks at the potent combination of love and ambition in this film about a couple who's so happy their daughter is marrying into a rich clan that they throw the best wedding ever, even if they can't afford it.
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