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A Life in Suitcases: A History of Tulse Luper

2005 · 120 min

A dense, playful essay-film that piles lists, footnotes and fragments into a puzzle you must actively assemble, more lecture than story.

Overview: A comic study of 20th-century history, reconstructing the life of writer, creator and professional prisoner Tulse Luper. Born in 1911 Newport and last heard of in 1989, Luper’s life is pieced together from the evidence found in 92 suitcases scattered across the globe. A Life in Suitcases condenses the six-hour trilogy into a single two-hour feature, and in doing so, accentuates the project as a filmic essay in multiple narratives, listings, sidebars, footnotes, commentaries and anecdotes; a project for an Information Age ready to understand that there never is a phenomenon called History, there can only be Historians, gatekeepers to vested interests.
How it feels: Satirical, whimsical, absurd and cynical. Measured and demanding.
About: Memory, identity, politics, war
Content: Mild violence, sexual content and language. No gore.
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Tone: whimsicalstrength 2 of 3
satiricalstrength 3 of 3
absurdstrength 2 of 3
cynicalstrength 2 of 3
Pacing: measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: memory
identity
politics
war
isolation
Places: big city
road trip
Era: period
Audience: adult
Form: nonlinear
anthology
ensemble
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex mild