Memoir of a Snail (2024)
Director: Adam Elliot Run Time: 94 min. Rating: R Release Year: 2024
Starring: Dominique Pinon, Eric Bana, Jacki Weaver, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Sarah Snook
Country: Australia
Language: English, French
About the film:
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.
“Yes, life can only be understood backwards, but Memoir of a Snail makes a sweetly compelling case that we’ll see the beauty in it one day — such a sweetly compelling case, in fact, that you might just start looking for it now.”
— David Ehrlich, Indiewire
About the filmmaker:
Adam Benjamin Elliot is an Australian animator and filmmaker based in Melbourne. His five films, both shorts and a feature, have collectively participated in over seven hundred film festivals and have received over one hundred awards, including an Academy Award for Harvie Krumpet and five Annecy Cristals.
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