Applesauce

In one of the film's first scenes, a radio DJ asks listeners, "What is the worst thing you've done in your life?" As you might expect, Onur Tukel prepares a litany of clever responses. In Applesauce, the perennial favorite director of Wrocław audiences continues the style that earned him the wild popularity of Summer of Blood. This masterful mix of horror and humor plays like a film by Woody Allen and Tim Burton. It is the story of a man whose orderly life is shattered by a macabre secret, but is above all a delicious satire of New York intellectuals. The director throws ironic jabs to the left and right striking sometimes at Donald Rumsfeld and Marshall McLuhan at others. Keeping to form, Tukel does not spare himself. It would be tough not to agree with IndieWire's review, which claims New York Comedy is rarely more scathing than Onur Tukel's 'Applesauce.'