Kureopatora

It is a curious Japanese animated movie. The script is a mess but has funny and smart moments. Animation itself is mostly rough, but the film changes many times the animation style (either mixing real footage with animation, or with minimalist drawing, or without the black line, and so forth) in a sophisticated way. The story happens mostly in classic Cleopatra's arch in Egypt and Rome, but there is also an odd time-trip sci-fi story where it was bizarrely inserted. It is widely known as an erotic animated film but despite a lot of drawn nudity there is no explicit sex, as all sexual activities are shown in various animation styles which never display hardcore parts. There is a lot of explicit violence but animation graphism lessens its brutal impact. Julius Cesar is green with no reason, but Egyptian characters follow historically coherent racial skin colours pattern. Egypt and Rome are well presented but many surrealist references to modern culture, history and arts elsewhere provide an unexpected but interesting experience. To resume, it is not among the best animated films I have watched, but it is certainly not forgettable either.