User reviews

I loved this, i like how it played with being completely opposite but also how people are not just 1 thing there can be duality.

The story was simple but so sweet and I an always impressed when you can fall for characters when it is a movie with no dialogue.

The score was also really well done. It once again played with hard and soft. It just worked.

Fragility and strength come face to face again in this short film to show that opposites attract... or do they repel? A little of both maybe, or a little of neither, a little coincidence and almost none of the typical fairy tale reverie.

In Boxballet there is a well-told story, interesting and tense in parts, which never forgets the juxtaposition and constant comparison of opposites. His style seems to pay homage to the silent cinema of exponents such as Chaplin and Keaton and adds current humor and the usual problems in which power is offered through fraud and degradation, especially powerful men abusing their power. All this while also balancing the political context of the dissolution of the USSR and its inevitable connection to Swan Lake.

The heroes of our short film are not, therefore, as opposed to each other as the title and the initial premise suggest: they are both faced with a moral choice, and their lives depend on that choice; they both want to follow their dreams, and for one reason or another they are prevented from achieving them; both are at the mercy of their political situation and will face the consequences sooner or later.

The plot weight of Boxballet goes beyond a love story. It implies sacrifice, dedication, devotion, bravery and even a little madness.

Downright classic, but only those who grew up on Soviet cartoons can understand this, and to say that this cartoon was not given an Oscar because of political considerations is more like a joke when a stutterer was not taken as an announcer on the central radio because he was a Jew, I repeat this very much good but very niche cartoon.