Adam Elliot’s length, which competed in the last Oscar, is an impressive work done with moving plasticine, which tells a bittersweet and moving history.
“Memories of a snail”, a recent Oscar candidate for best animation, first surprises with an impressive work molding. You have to see the tremendously detailed amount and well done of things that are piled up in a Cambalache while the titles pass. Then impress with a marked face of wrinkles of an old woman who is dying. And he begins to tender, with tears shining in the vsi eyes of a little girl next to the old woman. And immediately a smiling situation appears. Penalties and smiles coexist in this story that just begins.
But why that title? There is something natural. Faced with a danger, the snail takes refuge in its little house. It has no other resource. Given the certainty of a wrong course, it does not go back in a few steps like other animals. Something similar happens in the life of some human beings. And time does not go back. But that little girl, who is named Grace and loves the snails and uses a cap with antenitas, she went back in time, thus tells us what she has lived from her mother’s belly, where she felt very comfortable, to the happy reunion with her twin brother in the old lady’s wake.
There is this film, as sweetly sad and melancholic as that of Lasse Hallstrom What was called “My life as a dog” (But here they put “The year of rainbow” so that the public would not be scared). We are not going to tell what happens because it is a cluster of pains and misfortunes and because it tells the propíi Grace with the wise acceptance that time was giving him. And as we find out, a taste of bittersweet tenderness is winning our soul.
All this, made with dolls that the hands of artisans have endowed with grace and deep expression, and that the author’s mind has filled with life and teachings with situations and phrases worthy of memory. Adrian Elliot The author is called, an Australian who knew how to show off with the shorts “Harvie Krumppat” (Oscar winner, on an unhappy with Tourette and bad luck syndrome) and “Ernie Biscuit” (A deaf taxidermist who finds a dead dove) and with the admirable long “Mary and Max”History of epistolary friendship between two solitudes: an Australian girl and a New York old.
With that work Elliot He had reached the top of the animation technique in which he specializes, and also the top of beauty and wealth as a narrator. Well then, “Memories of a snail” It arrives at summits even higher. It is worth seeing both, and the short ones, and be attentive to their next jobs.
“Memories of a snail” (Memoir of a Snail, Australia, 2024); Dir.: Adam Elliot; animation.
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