natalyanormandy

All films of Anna are silent and do not need any translation: - she is using very unusual and evocative images to recount a universal archetypal story that will touch very deeply people of any nationality or background. I believe this is her main talent - to "speak" through animation the language that everyone can instantly relate to.

Everyone will take his own message from the story.

To me this film is about a woman who unwillingly looses her magic (or rather, it is taken away from her), becomes a wife and a mother, and lives an ordinary life, until she finds her true self back. The animation is superb and singular. This short tale will stay with you as long as you live - as universal stories usually do .

The actors are obviously outstanding, the script staggers at some parts, and yes , is artificial at others, but the movie raises an extremely important question, particularly poignant at our troubled times - what is the truth? can history be manipulated? is it OK to express your racist views, because of the freedom of speech? and what is the current duty of historians if not to prevent the abuse and intentional juggling of History? Or should the conspiracy partisans be ignored? Hard questions, extremely difficult to answer. No, the movie is not brilliant answering them, but is it brilliant because it raises the point and shows at least some complexity and seriousness of the questions of truth...

I can see why people can not praise this film - it is very hard to digest. It is set to so many beautiful classical melodies, and the world it sets into motion is just as luminous and wonderful as the music.

The most beautiful french women stay perfect through dozen childbirths, the children are all tender-hearted and dressed with utmost taste and play lovely games.. Nobody does anything else but loving each other with tenderness and softness and deepest understanding and acceptance. Everything is set in paradisaical garden and color and flowers filled rooms... It is a kind of world that we probably all dream of - with not one note of dissonance, of bad taste, of disorder, of any kind of ugliness or dirt. Except there is still death and loss and terrible pain.. and most graceful and elegant way to live through every turn of life...

Is it a Tran Anh Hung's oriental philosophy and unique artistic sensitivity translated into Western setting, or do they really exist - these perfect, subtle, fragile and prosperous families? Is it them we get a glimpse of - sometimes - on Parisian streets and elegant sea resorts? In any way - the film is extremely beautiful to watch and in the current world of terrible deficit of untainted images and characters, it is worth of the highest appreciation...