In 2035, our dreams are no longer our own–they’re infused with product placement and auditors assess unpaid taxes on our most private reveries. Beleaguered taxman James Preble (Kentucker Audley) arrives at a run-down house in the countryside for a routine audit and encounters Bella Isadora (Penny Fuller), a lifelong dreamer who remains resolutely analog, circumventing the surveillance state with VHS tapes and homemade headgear. As Preble works his way through Bella’s archive of the unconscious, he begins to fall in love with visions of her younger self (Grace Glowicki). But all is not well in dreamland as dangerous family secrets and a rogue’s gallery of blue demons and fried chicken pitchmen threaten to set the lovers’ paradise ablaze. Can Preble and Bella escape from the modern, monetized dreamscape and find refuge in Strawberry Mansion?
Critic’s Pick! “a soulful sci-fi oddity”
Amy Nicholson
New York Times
“one of the most unique indie visions in years”
Carlos Aguilar
LA Times
“tale of supernatural menaces and splendors”
Richard Brody
The New Yorker
Official Selection
Sundance 2021
“Strawberry Mansion is an eccentric hybrid, like a handmade Valentine.”
Sheila O’Malley
RogerEbert.com
“It’s very much its own thing, and in this movie day and age that is no small accomplishment.”
Mark Feeney
BOSTON GLOBE
“[A] visually entrancing and innovative fantasy.”
Eric Kohn
IndieWire
“A cult weirdo classic in the making.”
Rodrigo Perez
The Playlist
"Mind-bending and heartwarming.”
Kristy Puchko
RogerEbert.com
"Endearingly cash-strapped sci-fi fantasia"
Guy Lodge
Variety
Audio Commentary with directors Albert Birney and Kentucker Audley
Strawberry Beginnings: Making of Featurette
Deleted & Extended Scenes
Test Footage & Animation
Dan Deacon Soundtrack and Music Video
Short films by Albert Birney
Watercolor & Collage Gallery
Reversible jacket artwork
Exclusive collectible trading cards