For me, it was an occasion to remind A simple soul by Gustave Flaubert. A splendid stop motion animation about faith and desire. A delicate story and inspired way to drive it to the fair sense. Amusing and bitter and melancholic. a seductive short film about happiness and sense of life, with so many meanings.
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Kirpianuscus17 September 2020
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injury-6544730 September 2020I'm not going to Pretend that I understood this short. However, I really enjoyed it. Good mix of absurd humour and banalities. Amazing stop motion work!
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bob the moo31 August 2020An old owl lives alone, having dedicated her life to pure religious living for her God. As she nears the end of her life she reflects on these decisions with a certain amount of regret that they appear to have led her to live her life alone.
Although there is a lot to say about the plot of this short film, it is hard to start there when the animation is so impressive. Delivered in stop-motion, the film is so natural looking in terms of its movement, its light, and its attention to detail, that at times I almost forgot it was stop-motion because the word "stop" seemed in conflict with the fluidity I was seeing. I'm a sucker for this type of animation anyway, but it is endlessly impressive when done really well - and this is done hugely well. As I've often felt with great stop-motions, I was impressed by how the animation is only the delivery - the writing and characters are very well done too (if I ever managed to make a stop-motion animation, you can be assured it would not even be as good as Ben's in Parks & Recreation).
Here the plot is both simple and complex; on one hand it is as simple as a repressed spinster looking to release a life of pent up passion, but at the same time it is a touch more than that because it brings in the detail of the religion, the sadness of some aspects, the humour of others, and it makes for a complete picture with shading and detail - again, very similar to what the animation itself does. The manner of the telling makes it easy to follow the character on her journey, even if at times it can be a bit too on the beak, and then at others it is a flight of fancy very open to interpretation. Both work though, within the wider span of the film.
Very impressive short film, in a range of ways.