If this has a thread already I can’t find it.
A French production scoring 96% on Rotten Tomatoes and was the first-ever animated film to win the Nespresso Grand Prize at Cannes.
An odd and very creative film that … uh … grabs you.
Worth a watch!
No link to anything and no description of the movie other than “odd” isn’t generating enough interest in me to find this on my own.
Thanks for sharing!
It is unusual enough that I would rather not spoil anything for anyone who hasn’t seen it. If you liked Undone you’ll like this I think. The links about it tell too much I think. At least my sense is that I enjoyed it more because I had no idea of what it was and where it was going when I clicked play. Adult animation but not “adult” like crude humor or sexually explicit adult. Just of interest to adults.
Beautifully animated if all you care about is animation technique. I found it moving.
If no one has seen it or chooses to see it and there’s no discussion, fine.
Thanks for the heads up! I saw a review of this ages ago along with the trailer and was intrigued, but it wasn’t screening anywhere within reach. It had slipped my mind, so I’m glad I’ll get to see it now.
It’s an excellent film. Highly recommended.
The animation (of the old-school cel variety) was undeniably good.
But without giving too much away, what drove me nuts was how phenomenally stupid and entitled the protagonist was. I’ve heard some people argue that this is rooted in his depression, but the film doesn’t (IMHO) establish that enough to justify an epic series of mind-numbingly dumb decisions and creepy choices he makes. The ending is satisfying in a theoretical sense, but I stopped caring about him long before (though the hand-sequences were definitely the best).
Sadly, easiest the best animated feature film I saw last year, the really wonderful Japanese WEATHERING WITH YOU, was not even nominated for the Oscar, but I’d take it over any of the nominees, no question.
Agreed. But IMHO he is not set as anything but. It’s, for the bulk of the movie, [spoiler]his … uh … right hand man … who makes choices that require the brave leaps into the unknown, and who follows the dreams (the umbrella astronaut bit) … He’s stuck, literally playing the same tapes of the same moment over and over again, until he finally records something new over it. We come to understand why he is so flawed along the way, but he is nevertheless ultimately left with only himself to blame. Which he does.
In terms of animation - so many beautiful aspects of it. FWIW hands are very hard to draw well, even for one picture. So much well done hand drawn hand animation is itself something to note.[/spoiler]