Balance (1989)
Directed by Christoph Lauenstein
The setting is on a floating platform where a group of evenly and carefully placed men live. Each man is aware that the platform is not stable and in order not to fall to their deaths, they maintain a careful balance of weight to prevent the platform from tipping too far and cause them all to fall.
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What critics compared Balance to
The newbie director's aesthetic influences are top of the line: The Quay brothers' nightmarish visions of distressed puppets adrift in decayed landscapes; Wolfgang and Christoph Lauenstein's Oscar-winning 1989 short Balance; Sylvain Chomet's The Triplets of Belleville; Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro's Delicatessen and The City of Lost Children; Czech surrealist Jan Svankmajer's psychologically perverse fairy tales -- we're talking the greatest hits of gloomy, doomy European animation and hyper-stylized live action.