The Dryden will screen Mutafukaz (MFKZ, Shojiro Nishimi, Guillaume "Run" Renard, France/Japan 2017, 95 min., DCP, French w/subtitles).

A collaboration between French comic artist Guillaume "Run" Renard and ultra-hip Japanese animation house Studio 4°C, this violent, vulgar anime combines science fiction, film noir, and lucha libre into a bold vision of the future. The film centers on young Angelino and his skull-and-flame pal Vinz, who live in a seedy tenement in an LA-inspired dystopian metropolis. Following a scooter accident, Angelino starts experiencing migraines and strange hallucinations, as well as rage-inspired superpowers, as he slowly awakens to the truth of his origins: he is half-human and half-Macho, a supernatural alien race bent on taking over the planet.

[source: George Eastman Museum calendar, 2019-Apr-1]