2016 · animation · drama
My Life as a Courgette
Directed by Claude Barras1h 6m2016
After his mother’s death, Zucchini is befriended by a kind police officer, Raymond, who accompanies him to his new foster home filled with other orphans his age. There, with the help of his newfound friends, Zucchini eventually learns to trust and love as he searches for a new family of his own.
Our read: My Life as a Courgette (2016) reads as a warm, steady, grounded animation · drama entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, tender in temperature, ambivalent in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Warm, steady, gentle animation / drama, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, tender.
- tender
- intimate
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