Succession star Sarah Snook‘s new movie Memoir of a Snail has debuted with a 100% fresh score on Rotten Tomatoes after glowing reviews.
The adult animation from Oscar-winning writer and director Adam Elliot focuses on Grace Pudel (Snook), a woman who looks back on a childhood beset by tragedy, including the deaths of her parents, as well as being separated from her twin brother.
The Australian movie recently premiered at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival, with its first reviews earning it a perfect score on Rotten Tomatoes.
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Critics have called Memoir of a Snail everything from “charming” and “beguiling” to “hilarious” and “heart-wrenching”.
Here’s what reviewers have been saying:
The Guardian
“It is charming and beguiling, with a strong new personal and even autobiographical strain and, as in the past, [Elliot] has persuaded A-list voice talent to get involved.”
Variety
“There’s a magic to 100%-CG-free stop-motion, with its cellophane flames and tears made of sexual lubricant. Don’t be surprised if Memoir has you shedding real ones in your seat.”
Deadline
“[The] homespun quality, coupled with the engaging voice Succession star Sarah Snook brings to the long-suffering Gracie, turn an ostensibly bleak story into a life-affirming pleasure.”
Screen International
“Elliot is a master of the art of gallows humour, and this appealing ‘clayography’ (the term coined by the director for his distinctive stop motion biographical stories) is as hilarious as it is heart-wrenching – frequently within the same scene.”
Eye for Film
“Adam Elliot again proves himself a master at hitting the tragicomic sweet-spot between laughter and tears with his second stop-motion feature. The joy – and, almost as often, the sadness – is there in every detail.”
The Hollywood Reporter
“Memoir of a Snail will be an acquired taste, and the director takes longer than ideal to locate the pathos beneath the eccentricities. But the artisanal spirit and abundant creativity of the enterprise is undeniable, immersing us in a vivid world crafted from clay, wire, paper and paint, without a single frame of CG imagery.”
Memoir of a Snail has yet to confirm a cinema release date.
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