2016 · animation · fantasy · drama
The Girl Without Hands
Directed by Sébastien Laudenbach1h 16m2016
A poor miller gets tricked by the Devil and accidentally sells his daughter for a bit of gold. But Satan can't take her because she's too pure and has wept on her hands. So Satan orders the miller to cut her hands off. It's the beginning of the young girl's journey towards freedom.
Our read: The Girl Without Hands (2016) reads as a sombre, slow-burn, surreal animation · fantasy · drama entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, nihilistic in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Sombre, slow-burn, measured animation / fantasy, surreal in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, measured.
- sombre
- slow-burn
- surreal
- signature
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