2009 · animation · latvian · short
Tomatoes
Directed by Jon Avnet2h 10m2009
Amidst her own personality crisis, a southern housewife meets an outgoing old woman who tells her the story of Idgie Threadgoode and Ruth Jamison, two young women who experienced hardships and love in 1920s Whistle Stop, Alabama.
Our read: Tomatoes (2009) reads as a warm, kinetic, inventive animation · latvian · short entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, kinetic, gentle animation / latvian, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- warm
- brisk
- inventive
- intimate
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“You want Southern friendship stories that sneak up and leave you nourished.”
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