2014 · animation · fantasy · adventure
Boy & the World
Directed by Alê Abreu1h 20m2014
Suffering because of his father's departure to the big city, a boy leaves his village and discovers a fantastic world dominated by bug-engines and strange beings. An unusual animation with various artistic techniques that portrays the issues of the modern world through the eyes of a child.
Our read: Boy & the World (2014) reads as a warm, kinetic, surreal animation · fantasy · adventure entry — gentle in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, tender in temperature, ambivalent in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Warm, kinetic, gentle animation / fantasy, surreal in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, tender.
- warm
- brisk
- gentle
- surreal
- tender
- signature
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