38/48
This is Michel Hazanavičius's first animated film
Narrative
During the war, a poor lumberjack and his wife live in a large forest. One day, the woman finds and rescues a girl, bringing irrevocable changes to the lives of the couple and those whose paths the child will cross.
This is the best 2024 show I’ve seen this year, and we are in mid-December 2024
It tells a story set in Poland during World War II, almost like a folktale. Most of the plot takes place in a forest so typical of said folktales, revolving around a couple of lumberjacks who adopt a Jewish girl who was thrown off a deportation train that passed through their forest.
From a technical point of view, everything is also done perfectly
She was rejected by her father in order to save her from certain death in Auschwitz. I won’t go into the details of the plot so you can see them for yourself, I just want to add that the film will reach a deep philosophical conclusion.
The visuals of the film are excellent
The drawing style is appropriate, not too detailed or too rough, the scenes are mostly shown in low light with dominant shades of gray, thus emphasizing the horror of the saddest war and mass destruction in human history. And then the soundtrack, which is Sublime: The musical score, the sound effects, the narration and the voice acting (I saw the original version in French), all of it is perfectly suited to present this gem of a film.