42/29
In times of war, a poor woodcutter and his wife live in a large forest. One day, the woman finds and rescues a little girl, which brings an irrevocable change to the lives of the couple and those whose paths will cross with the girl. This is the story of Michel Hazanavicius. First animated film. This is the best 2024 release I have seen this year so far and we are in mid-December 2024. It tells a story that takes place in Poland during World War II, almost like a folk tale. Most of the plot takes place in a forest, so typical of the aforementioned folk tales, and revolves around a couple of woodcutters who adopt a Jewish girl who has been thrown off a deportation train that runs through their forest. Her father abandoned her to save her from certain death in Auschwitz. I will not go into further details about the plot so you can see for yourself, I just want to add that the film will come to a deeply philosophical conclusion. On the technical side everything is perfectly done as well. The visual aspects of the film are extraordinarily accomplished. The drawing style is perfect, neither too detailed nor too rough, showing mainly scenes with low lighting and dominant shades of grey, thus underlining the horrors of the most infamous war and mass extermination event in the history of mankind. And then the soundtrack which is sublime: The soundtrack, the sound effects, the narration and the voices (I saw the original version in French), all totally appropriate to present this gem of a film. In conclusion, it is one of the best films dealing with the subject of racism and particularly the Shoah, through its artistic procedure and the story it wants to tell.
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