What a felicitous oeuvre! Not the shiny kind of beauty, the other kind, the one that transcends.
The story telling, the animation, the backgrounds, everything seems a bit minimalist but the intensity of this 60 minute movie I found was overwhelming.
The central theme of the movie: unconditional love. In some scenes it becomes more explicit, in other less. But I discovered several expressions of it, all cunningly portrayed. Some gorgeous, some hide in the shadows before revealing themselves and others seem even darkly romantic. The most touching, that I will remember for some time to come; When Simon tells Courgette to take his chance - after all Simon just did to reunite the gang, wanting to have all is friends back together and as happy as possible. Sting sang; "if you love somebody, set them free" - here is what that might look like.
Funny that this topic turns out so well, when the story revolves around kids. Food for though; about where pure love might come from and how adults need to cultivate it.
This is a nice change among all the tit for tat stories and the Hollywood saga of the outsider rising to a hero that get rehashed time and time again.
The voice acting by Nick Offerman was also deserves a special mention here.
The story telling, the animation, the backgrounds, everything seems a bit minimalist but the intensity of this 60 minute movie I found was overwhelming.
The central theme of the movie: unconditional love. In some scenes it becomes more explicit, in other less. But I discovered several expressions of it, all cunningly portrayed. Some gorgeous, some hide in the shadows before revealing themselves and others seem even darkly romantic. The most touching, that I will remember for some time to come; When Simon tells Courgette to take his chance - after all Simon just did to reunite the gang, wanting to have all is friends back together and as happy as possible. Sting sang; "if you love somebody, set them free" - here is what that might look like.
Funny that this topic turns out so well, when the story revolves around kids. Food for though; about where pure love might come from and how adults need to cultivate it.
This is a nice change among all the tit for tat stories and the Hollywood saga of the outsider rising to a hero that get rehashed time and time again.
The voice acting by Nick Offerman was also deserves a special mention here.