50/33
This is Michel Hazanavicius’ first animated film
In these times of war, a poor woodcutter and his wife live in a large forest. One day, the wife finds and saves a little girl, bringing an irrevocable change in the lives of the couple and those whose path the child will cross.
It is the best release of 2024 that I have seen so far and it is mid-December 2024
It tells a story that takes place in Poland during World War II, almost like a folk tale. Most of the plot takes place in a forest, so typical of the aforementioned folk tales, around a couple of woodcutters who adopt a little Jewish girl who has been thrown from a deportation train passing through their forest.
On the technical side, everything is also perfectly done
She was thrown by her father to save her from certain death in Auschwitz. I won’t go into more details of the plot so that you can see them for yourself, I just want to add that the film will lead to a deeply philosophical conclusion.
The visuals of the film are remarkably done
The drawing style is just right, neither too detailed nor too messy, showing mainly low-light scenes with dominant shades of gray, thus highlighting the horrors of the most infamous war and mass extermination in human history. And then the soundtrack which is sublime: The soundtrack, the sound effects, the narration and the dubbing (I saw the original version in French), everything is totally appropriate to present this gem of a film.