Benutzerrezensionen

Wow Just Wow, I'm speechless, Here's Your Oscar Winner

A hair dryer by another form cannot end what a dance would do, neither does Alzheimer.

In this animated short, a painter slowly falls prey to dementia, his world dissolving into vague, impressionistic shapes.

Like DCERA, this animated short uses the form and look of its artwork to reinforce the story. In recent years, there have been several animated shorts nominated for Oscars which have concerned themselves with senility, and frankly, I'm getting tired of whatever members of the branch of the Academy responsible for providing the lists of nominees who keeps voting in favor of them. I guess whoever does thinks this is an important issue, and that they're going to keep nominating them until the Academy gives one of them the Oscar.

I agree it is importent, especially since I personally became a senior citizen, but there's more to animation than Alzheimer's, so stop it.

That said, it's very well done, and the artwork does much to tell the story.

Everything is magical. The painting and the vanishing memories of an old man suffering from alzheimer's disease is touching, deep and beautiful. A must-see! Loved it!

Both the visual art and the message conveyed. Dementia from the inside.

This is an incredibly moving film that treats the audience with respect, and allows it's animation, voice work and screenplay to carry the story. The film tells a compelling tale that anyone that has dealt with family or friend with a memory disorder can relate too but also gives the just the right amount of time to develop enough character within the film to relate to the cast by the end. I found the use of paint, and lack there of, at the end of the film moving and a wonderful insight to the mind of our protagonist. This film deserves any and all praise it has received. I will be recommending this film for years, and years to come and would love to see more from the writer, Bruno Collet, in the future.

This is one of the very best and most sensible short movies I've ever seen. Anyone who knows someone suffering of Alzheimer's is gonna cry like a baby by watching it. I hope it wins the Oscar!!!

Obvious, a masterpiece. Not only for stop motion animation but for the high care to explore the dementia in gentle and precise and nuanced manner . A film who I saw many times and the mix of thrill, emotion, fascination and gratitude to the director was the same each occasion. Great story, precious craft. A painter and his falling world. And the fundamental changes of near reality. So, no doubt, a pure masterpiece.

I saw this as part of an Oscar shorts package, and consider it middle of the pack. I usually would not go to a movie with a theme of memory loss, so thankfully this is only a short.

This is unlike anything i've seen before. A painter who is a master at the use of oils has lost the ability to distinguish reality from his incredibly complex art form. As he engages with his surroundings, the things he sees begin to float away, fragment, Including his beloved wife.

First of all, the animations are so gorgeous and different from the typical animated movie. The story is not new but its so simply and beautifully put its actually very good and different from other dementia-based movies or stories. Really felt it and you don't even have to have a family member or friend to understand the pain. Recommend you go see it!

2020-003-#03 92 Academy Awards Animated Short Nomination

Beyond what I perceive to be the most effective way of transposing the unique aesthetic of Van Gogh's paintings to a three dimensional setting, it's indeed its brilliant use through the stop motion animation to tell such an emotional and touching story that sets this short movie apart everything else.

And it's not only in the fact that the animation itself pays such a peculiar tribute to painting, but how the movie utilises the discipline's particular notions and symbolisms to transpose the story of this man slowly losing his memory.

The way the objects are shown as blurs of paint as they become diluted to him is the most effective manner of showing his unique recessive perspective on things. But it is when his own vision on the people in his life become more and more abstract, general brush strokes without any identity for him or us to distinguish them from each other, that we completely realise the inevitability of his condition as he continuously looses grip of his reality.

He himself keeps losing his own identity, his perception of himself broader and broader, less precise, more primary in form and colour, trying to guard himself in the only activity he can still have without change. And even that... Until, in the end, he watches the last traces, the last brush strokes of his wife, his only constant throughout it all, lingering in his last barely recognisable memories, in a heartbreaking, beautiful and fulfilling ending to a tragic story.

Stumbled upon by this film by chance, did not expect it to be this good. The visuals, the colors... all go beautifully with the plot of the story. A magnificent way to portray dementia.