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Bo (Russell Dykstra) takes his mother Patsy (Jeanie Drynan) to the funeral parlour, to choose a coffin. He runs into one of his classmates, Swifty (Marin Mimica), who has turned his woodworking classes to good use. Swifty offers his old schoolmate some hospitality – shaking a bottle of pills under his nose. Bo abandons his mother at the funeral parlour.
Curator’s notes
The film has a daring sense of the absurd, which is sometimes explosively funny, as in this scene. It’s often tinged with a sense of history – as in the infantile way that Swifty and Bo immediately respond to each other, like preschool boys in the playground. No one ever really grows up, Andreef seems to be saying, until the death of a parent.
