43/29

This is Michel Hazanavicius' first animated film

In these times of war, a poor woodcutter and his wife live in a large forest. One day, the woman finds and saves a little girl, bringing an irrevocable change to the lives of the couple and those whose paths cross with the child.

It is the best release of 2024 that I have seen so far and is in mid-December 2024

It tells a story set in Poland during World War II, almost like a folk tale. Most of the plot takes place in a forest, so typical of the folk tales mentioned above, around a couple of woodcutters who adopt a little Jewish girl who was thrown from a deportation train that was passing through their forest.

From a technical point of view, everything is also perfectly done

She was thrown by her father to save her from certain death in Auschwitz. I won't go into more details of the plot, so you can see for yourself, I just want to add that the film will reach a deeply philosophical conclusion.

The images of the film are remarkable

The drawing style is correct, neither too detailed nor too messy, presenting mostly low-light scenes with dominant shades of gray, thus highlighting the horrors of the most infamous war and mass extermination in human history. And then the soundtrack which is sublime: the musical soundtrack, the sound effects, the narration and the dubbing (I saw the original version in French), everything is perfectly suited to present this gem of a film.

In conclusion, it is one of the best films that deals with the subject of racism and especially the Shoah, through its artistic approach and the story it wants to tell