Postcard from Sun City, Arizona (2004) : distribution, intrigue et streaming

Released in 2004, Postcard from Sun City, Arizona is a documentaire film directed by Joshua Oppenheimer, running about 3 minutes.

What it’s about. Joshua Oppenheimer sets images of life in a retirement community in Arizona (as seen through television commercials) to a talk radio interview with a female convict extolling the benefits of her time on Sherriff Joe Arpaio's chain gang. It is two different kinds of sale jobs working at cross-purposes. Oppenheimer takes the luster off the idealistic advertising images through video distortion and electronic interference and cuts-up both the video and audio tracks until the weird poetry of the chain gang prisoner's lessons in life and death gives the commercial presentation a creepy disconnection from any kind of living ideal. It follows A BRIEF HISTORY OF PARADISE AS TOLD BY THE COCKROACHES and MARKET UPDATE as another sharp jab at consumerism as an illusory promise.

How it landed. With an audience score of 5.0/10, Postcard from Sun City, Arizona has proved divisive with audiences.

Where to watch. Streaming options change often. See the full, country-by-country breakdown on our where to watch Postcard from Sun City, Arizona page.

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