“To outer space by moonlight, on rollerskates" Aunt Mildred (Mona Washbourne). Another one I reviewed few years ago, the no-two-ways-about-it absurdist "One Way Pendulum" (1964), starring Eric Sykes as a father who holds a little court in his living room to investigate his son (Jonathan Miller), busy conducting a choir of speak-your-weight machines in the attic: "It's a story of a family in English suburbia, with the air of the absolute quiet ordinary, sewn in seamlessly with ruptures of absolute fantasy and surrealism, sensitively depicted with as much compassion as distance, to seem almost like the quiet eccentricities of a family deep in the contemporary anxieties about youth and death.
They float around each other and spaces of isolated logic, full of their own incredible absurdities, wandering almost unknowingly between limitation and the impossible, tempting the questions of Heidegger of being and time, and of being-there." Also an interesting cinematic exploration of silence and sound, even if I may not watch it again, but it also features one of my favourite character actors, Glyn Houston Xo
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