Seeking proof there is something new under the sun after all? Bask in the glow of Academy Award winner Adam Elliot’s strange, beautiful, funny, wholly affecting stop-motion meditation on love, loss, and the search for meaning in our often bewildering, too-short lives.
Think The Secret Garden and Pixar’s Up beamed through a surrealist prism of Marc Caro and Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s The City of Lost Children — plus a jar of snails — and you’ll be in the reality-refracting neighborhood.
Add brilliant, painstakingly human artistry and a mind-bogglingly eclectic cast:
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Nick Cave
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Eric Bana (Hulk; Munich)
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Two-time Academy Award nominee Jacki Weaver (Animal Kingdom; Silver Linings Playbook)
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Sarah Snook (Succession)
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Academy Award nominee Kodi Smit-McPhee (ParaNorman; The Power of the Dog)
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Dominique Pinon (The City of Lost Children)
—and it’s clear this is a work to experience and cherish.