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."

Telluride Film Festival 2024: M/Sat 6:45PM - L/Sun 12PM Q&AQ & A - G/Mon 3:45PM

36 Memoir of a Snail

Larry Gross: " Is it possible to endure an existence of deprivation and loss and yet still love your life? Australian Oscar-winning writer-director Adam Elliot (MAX AND MARY) answers this complicated question with charm, graceful wisdom and a flamboyant display of innovative stop-motion animation. Grace (Sarah Snook), an outcast who longs for her lost twin Gilbert (Kodi Smit-McPhee) recounts her lonely saga on the occasion of the death of Pinky (Jackie Weaver), a crusty, cigar-smoking lady adventurer whose tiny acts of kindness are the one bright light in Grace’s dark world. Nick Cave and Eric Bana also lend their voices, and Elliot adds a startling and thrilling amount of physical comedy into the flow of the story. MEMOIR ingeniously blends Dickensian melodrama with bawdy comedy and an uncanny eye for the physical debris we accumulate in our lives, thus confirming Guillermo del Toro’s axiom: Animation IS cinema! " –LG (Australia, 2024, 94m) In person: Adam Elliot

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".

The Kierkegaard axiom has a connection to the mystery of storytelling – sujet and fabula.

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Larry Gross in the Telluride Film Festival program note quotes Guillermo del Toro's axiom: "Animation IS cinema!" It reminds me of the thesis of the first Finnish dissertation on the cinema, Helge Miettunen's Johdatus elokuvan estetiikkaan [An Introduction to the Aesthetics of the Cinema] (1949). Miettunen argued that all cinema is animation – a special effect, an illusion of motion out of motionless photograms.