Where to Watch Upsidedown and Backwards (1980)

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Read on for a listing of streaming and cable services - including rental, purchase, and subscription alternatives - along with the availability of 'Upsidedown and Backwards' on each platform when they are available. Now, before we get into the fundamentals of how you can watch 'Upsidedown and Backwards' right now, here are some finer points about the flick.

Released January 1st, 1980, 'Upsidedown and Backwards' stars The movie has a runtime of about 29 min, and received a user score of (out of 100) on TMDb, which assembled reviews from knowledgeable users.

You probably already know what the movie's about, but just in case... Here's the plot: "In Upsidedown and Backwards, two fairy tales — The Frog Prince and The Boy Who Went Out to Learn Fear — are told simultaneously, one backwards and one forwards, each interrupting the other. Jonas' ironic use of visual symbolism further inverts the structure and content of the fragmented fairy tale narratives, creating multiple, mirror-image reversals of the texts and their meaning. The inverted and mixed-up tales, which are intercut with Jonas' ritualistic performances, merge into a composition of transformation and sexuality that evokes the tangled subconscious of male and female desire. Jonas performs wearing a veiled doll face as she manipulates childlike objects or partners a skeleton in a danse macabre. Charged with the sublimated fears and fantasies of childhood, the tape's imagery mirrors the fairy tales in its fusion of innocence and horror, dream and nightmare." .