28/47

In these times of war, a poor woodcutter and his wife live in a large forest. One day, the wife finds and saves a little girl, bringing an irrevocable change in the lives of the couple and those whose path the child will cross. This is Michel Hazanavicius’ first animated film. It is the best release of 2024 that I have seen so far and it is mid-December 2024. It tells a story that takes place in Poland during World War II, almost like a folk tale. Most of the plot takes place in a forest, so typical of the aforementioned folk tales, around a couple of woodcutters who adopt a little Jewish girl who has been thrown from a deportation train passing through their forest. 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 that you can see them for yourself, I just want to add that the film will lead to a deeply philosophical conclusion. On the technical side, everything is also perfectly done. The visuals of the film are remarkably done. The drawing style is just right, neither too detailed nor too messy, showing mainly 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 soundtrack, the sound effects, the narration and the dubbing (I saw the original version in French), everything is totally appropriate to present this gem of a film. In conclusion, it is one of the best films dealing with the subject of racism and particularly the Holocaust, through its artistic approach and the story it wants to tell.

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