Memoir of a Snail

Adam Elliot: Memoir of a Snail (AU 2024).

Mémoires d'un escargot

    AU 2024. PC: Arenamedia et Snails Pace Films. P: Liz Kearne. EX: Robert Connolly, Robert Patterson.

Réalisation et scénario, production design : Adam Elliot

Photographie : Gerald Thompson - couleur

Directeur artistique  : Bob Shea

Sculptor, puppet fabricator : Craig "Rossi" Ross

Principal sculptor / skies / puppet fabricator : Julian Clavijo

Lead puppet fabricator : Mikayla Hotton

Animation supervisor : John Lewis

Sociétés de distribution : Madman Entertainment (Australie) ; Wild Bunch (France)2

Langue originale : anglais

Genre : animation, drame

Durée : 94 minutes

Date de sortie :

    France : 10 juin 2024 (Festival international du film d'animation d'Annecy) ; 15 janvier 2025 (sortie nationale) - sous-titres francais Sylvestre Meimnitz

    Voice cast

Sarah Snook as Grace Pudel

Snook also narrates the movie as Grace

Charlotte Belsey as Young Grace

Kodi Smit-McPhee as Gilbert Pudel

Mason Litsos as Young Gilbert

Jacki Weaver as Pinky, a former table dancer who befriends Grace

Eric Bana as James, a magistrate

Magda Szubanski as Ruth Appleby, Gilbert's religious and abusive foster mother

Dominique Pinon as Percy Pudel, the father of Grace and Gilbert

Tony Armstrong as Ken, a repairman who Grace briefly marries

Paul Capsis as Ian and Narelle, a swinger couple who become Grace's foster parents

Bernie Clifford as Owen Appleby, Gilbert's religious foster father

Davey Thompson as Ben Appleby, Gilbert's foster brother

Nick Cave as Bill Clarke, Pinky's second husband

10H15  dimanche, le 2 mars 2025

L’Épée de Bois, 100 rue Mouffetard, 75005 Paris, 5e, M° Censier-Daubenton, Ligne 7

Memoir of a Snail / Mémoires d’un escargot (Adam Elliot, AU 2024) 94’

IMDb storyline: "A bittersweet memoir of a melancholic woman called Grace Pudel - a hoarder of snails, romance novels, and guinea pigs."

AA: Adam Elliot's Memoir of a Snail is an extraordinary stop motion animation feature, pursuing his unique art that he calls Clayography (clay animation and biography). The art of the puppet animation teams led by Elliot, Craig "Rossi" Ross, Julian Clavijo, Mikayla Hotton and John Lewis is so full of fantastic detail that the movie needs to be seen more than once.

Memoir of a Snail is an irreverent, taboo breaking  and shocking coming of age story of Grace Pudel, breathtaking in its wealth of visual invention and witty remarks. 

The snail-obsessed adventure in anxiety finally leads to snail-shell breaking insights: the worst cages are the ones we create for ourselves. We've got to break free. Elliot quotes Kierkegaard: "Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards".