Memoir of a Snail
A film by Adam Elliot
w/ Sarah Snook, Eric Bana, Kodi Smit-McPhee
Rated R
1hr 34min
In 1970s Australia, Grace's life is troubled by misfortune and loss. After their mother dies during pregnancy, she and her twin brother, Gilbert, are raised by their paraplegic-alcoholic former juggler father, Percy. Despite a life filled with love, tragedy strikes anew when Percy passes away in his sleep. The siblings are forcibly separated and thrust into separate homes. Gilbert finds himself in the care of a cruel evangelical family, while Grace, grappling with intense loneliness, gradually withdraws into her shell, much like the snails she adopts. As the years pass, and despite new disappointments and sorrows, a glimmer of hope emerges when she strikes up an enduring friendship with an elderly eccentric woman called Pinky.
"There’s an ingenuousness and innocence to Memoir of a Snail, a family-entertainment approachability that belies a strange intensity."
Peter Bradshaw
Guardian
"You don’t have to be mad to do stop-motion animation but, as the saying goes, it helps. Which makes it all the remarkable that Memoir of a Snail, peopled though it is with flawed, unpredictable characters, is so reassuringly sane."
Stephanie Bunbury
Deadline Hollywood Daily
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w/ Sarah Snook, Eric Bana, Kodi Smit-McPhee
Rated R
1hr 34min
In 1970s Australia, Grace's life is troubled by misfortune and loss. After their mother dies during pregnancy, she and her twin brother, Gilbert, are raised by their paraplegic-alcoholic former juggler father, Percy. Despite a life filled with love, tragedy strikes anew when Percy passes away in his sleep. The siblings are forcibly separated and thrust into separate homes. Gilbert finds himself in the care of a cruel evangelical family, while Grace, grappling with intense loneliness, gradually withdraws into her shell, much like the snails she adopts. As the years pass, and despite new disappointments and sorrows, a glimmer of hope emerges when she strikes up an enduring friendship with an elderly eccentric woman called Pinky.
"There’s an ingenuousness and innocence to Memoir of a Snail, a family-entertainment approachability that belies a strange intensity."
Peter Bradshaw
Guardian
"You don’t have to be mad to do stop-motion animation but, as the saying goes, it helps. Which makes it all the remarkable that Memoir of a Snail, peopled though it is with flawed, unpredictable characters, is so reassuringly sane."
Stephanie Bunbury
Deadline Hollywood Daily
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