This is a pleasing animated movie from Argentina. It tells the story of a lonely and empathic urban cat who wanders in search of company. It begins in the sploshy rain-ridden streets of a city where the cat is watching TV in a shop window. Via a refuse-removal truck it finds itself along a trackway through the desert. At various moments the cat makes friends with an armadillo and a pygmy owl and a frenemy in the guise of remote service station guard dog. This short has some moments of pathos as the lone cat parts company with his fellow lost friends. But there are no really upsetting scenes so I feel it is OK for younger children. It has a good sense of environmental atmosphere with moments of storm and howling wind and desert tumbleweed blowing along. I liked the music by Daniel Soruco. There is little pieces of piano that accompanies the pathos and drama very well. Also a nice touch of a bandoneon tango accordion during the end credits.
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