Clearly influenced by David Lynch's BLUE VELVET, Clowes presents a strange world that becomes suffocatingly unsettling as Clay, the main character, finds himself sinking into his search for a woman from his past. For those who know Clowes only through GHOST WORLD, LIKE A VELVET GLOVE CAST IN IRON will be quite a shock.Ĭollected from its original run in EIGHTBALL, this graphic novel presents some of the most tautly woven and labyrinthine surrealism in the comics medium (which is to say, it's mighty strange). No nudity, no sex: only undeniable, disturbing perversion. Instead of calming entertainment, though, the daydream of choice is a few reels of surrealist pornography.
With this scenario begins Daniel Clowes' LIKE A VELVET GLOVE CAST IN IRON. In the outside world, he says, people go about their business chaotically there is a constant urge to find release, and so they stop, gather in a dark room with strangers for two hours, and collectively daydream. One of my favorite filmmakers, AUGUST ON THE WATER's Sogo Ishii, aside from being a talented director, has an astoundingly elegant understanding of the pleasures of film.
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