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Leaving Home

Original title: Uit Huis
  • 2013
  • 7m
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7.0/10
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Leaving Home (2013)
AnimationComedyDramaShort

When father decides Richard is old enough to leave his parental home, he sends him out into the world. Only Richard keeps returning home: everytime in a more bizarre way. Somehow he seems at... Read allWhen father decides Richard is old enough to leave his parental home, he sends him out into the world. Only Richard keeps returning home: everytime in a more bizarre way. Somehow he seems attached to the house. When an unfortunate alteration in life takes place, Richard is forced... Read allWhen father decides Richard is old enough to leave his parental home, he sends him out into the world. Only Richard keeps returning home: everytime in a more bizarre way. Somehow he seems attached to the house. When an unfortunate alteration in life takes place, Richard is forced to stand on his own feet.

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    • Joost Lieuwma
  • Writer
    • Joost Lieuwma
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  • IMDb RATING
    7.0/10
    210
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    • Director
      • Joost Lieuwma
    • Writer
      • Joost Lieuwma
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    Kirpianuscus

    the nest

    The theme is familiar, the drawings nice, the mix of old fairy tales and a sort of Peter Pan syndrome works in well manner. Some amusing, some didactic, it gives a seductive portrait of connections, reactions, decisions and the leaving home of parents . A nice short animation.
    3boblipton

    Doesn't Strike Home

    Joost Lieuwma's simple silent cartoon of a young man who refuses to leave home and live an independent life is a nicely executed little effort, with some psychological truisms in it despite an overtly manipulative solution to the problem. The artwork is simple, almost childish, and that works to reflect to childish nature of the boy who won't leave home.

    The problem with this work is that it needn't have been a cartoon. Oh, there is a short sequence beginning about the 4:30 mark when his house follows him, but that lasts maybe fifteen seconds. The rest of the movie could have been done live and the one section of extreme fantasy could have been executed in CGI. Animation is as inappropriate to this story as if it had been done as a tap dance.

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      • September 2013 (Netherlands)
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