Impolex

[Albert Rolls]

'Impolex'
reRun Gastropub Theater 
147 Front St., Brooklyn, (718) 766-9110 
Friday-July 21 

Brooklyn filmmaker Alex Ross Perry is a literary type. His recent comedy "The Color Wheel" takes important cues from Philip Roth. But its little-seen precursor, "Impolex," is more emphatic: The 75-minute film is a dream-like homage to Thomas Pynchon's gargantuan 1973 novel "Gravity's Rainbow." It imagines one of book's character's, Tyrone Slothrop (played her by Riley O'Bryan) wandering a forest during World War II in search of unexploded German V-2 rockets. Between bouts of narcolepsy he encounters various individuals, including a girlfriend (Kate Lyn Sheil) and a talking squid voiced by comedian Eugene Mirman.