About.
Company
New Zealand International Film Festival
Duration
66 minutes
Advisory
PG sexual references | Dubbed
Ma vie de courgette, Switzerland/France 2016
A bunch of kids from nightmare backgrounds find refuge and companionship in this soulful and subversive Oscar-nominated animated feature. Painstakingly crafted over a decade, Courgette marks another triumph for animation director Kim Keukeleire, who worked on Wes Anderson’s Fantastic Mr Fox.
“My Life As a Courgette is a stop-motion cartoon, blessed with both a Swiss director (Claude Barras), and an ambition not to do anything the conventional way… The animated characters, most with elongated bodies and pasty ping-pong heads with huge eyes, are beautifully realized, and the delicate touch of Barras works wonders. Skillfully adapted by Céline Sciamma (Girlhood) from the hit 2002 young adult novel by Gilles Paris, the film has a keen eye and ear for the way children process the inconceivable (neglect, abuse, deportation, murder)… The feeling of melancholy is undercut by the resilience of these children, their ability to forge relationships and create life out of chaos…
My Life As a Courgette never sacrifices what’s true for what’s trite and easier to sell. This is animation as an art form, inspiring and indelible.” — Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
Credits.
Claude Barras
Director
Céline Sciamma
Screenplay - based on the novel by Gilles Paris
Kim Keukeleire
Animation director
English Voices.
Erick Abbate
Ness Krell
Romy Beckman
Nick Offerman
Festivals.
Cannes (Directors’ Fortnight), Melbourne, Toronto, London 2016; Sundance 2017
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Tickets.
Tickets.
Price Range - Booking fees may apply $11.30 - $17.30