Film No. 71. MEMOIR OF A SNAIL (2024). 24th Oct.

 

Film No. 71  (2024) October 24th.  3:45 PM  EVENT CINEMAS, Cine 3,  Innaloo.

"I believed in glasses half full and silver linings. Life was so full and so precious.  (Grace explains in voice over how she saw life).

WINNER: Best Feature Feature Film (Adam Elliot) London Film Festival.

Can an artist using stop-motion technique, create a feature film to be compared with those of Aardman's, Nick Park? When it's Australian, Academy Award winner, Adam Elliot, he most certainly can.

Grace (Sarah Snook) tells her story with such beauty here in MEMIOR OF A SNAIL.  The  overwhelming darkness in her life fades as her glass half full attitude gradually prevails. Elliot (MARY AND MAX) is notoriously dark in tone and narrative, but things are not always BLACK. With every shot there is a lighter reference to something. Melbourne's Bitter (a top, a pub) or Schnitz n' Tits (Pinky's workplace) examples of the smiles we get as we "slide" along with Grace. "Every film is a miracle", who said that? Shooting 5 to 10 seconds a day for 33 weeks, definitely qualifies MEMIOR for this category. 

Maybe the narration is over played, but the pleasant tones of Sarah Snook are consistently sweet. Adam Elliot, you are a marvel. You place a mirror in front of us all. And while there is an anger here, you always leave us with HOPE!  10GUMS.