On Top of the Whale

Movie · 1h 37m

Starring Willeke van Ammelrooy, Jean Badin, Fernando Bordeu, Herbert Curiel

A parody of anthropology, linguistics, and cultural imperialism. The film follows an unlikely team of linguists into the wilds of an ersatz Patagonia to study the last speakers of a dying language. That language apparently consists of a single word, which therefore means everything.