In 2013, everyone fell in love with that scene-stealing cat
from the Coen Brothers’ Inside Llewyn Davis. If there is any
justice in this cold cruel world—and if the movie is any indication, there
isn’t—everyone is going to go similarly nuts for Bunzo, the adorable rabbit in
David Zellner’s Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter. They’re both
adorable and precocious, hell, they’re even the same color and serve a similar
narrative function: to comfort our protagonists as their lives come undone
around them, and as a symbol of all that they lose and give up in the pursuit
of an unattainable dream.
