2025 · animation · drama · history
Butterfly
Directed by Florence Miailhe15m2025
A Jewish North African middle-aged man's swim in the sea triggers memories of his earlier life as an Olympic swimmer before and after World War II.
Our read: Butterfly (2025) reads as a neutral, kinetic, inventive animation · drama · history entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, kinetic, measured animation / drama, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- brisk
- intense
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How Butterfly feels to watch.
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“You want a beautiful hand-animated short swimming through memory, trauma, and survival.”
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