Tragic Story with Happy Ending

História Trágica com Final Feliz

Canada, France, Portugal

2006

7 Min

Black and White

Portuguese

Currently 3.8/5 Stars.
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PROD Patrick Eveno, Abi Feijó, Jacques-Rémy Girerd, Marcel Jean

CAST Manuela Azevedo, Elina Löwensohn

A girl has a heart that beats faster than normal and so loudly that it disturbs the neighbors and their dogs. They complain, and she explains that she has a bird’s heart and that she thinks she’s a bird trapped in a girl’s body. They scoff and she flees, but she later calms down and returns home. As time passes the neighbors get used to the noise and eventually forget about it. And as everyone goes about their routine lives, the girl accepts her differences and becomes comfortable with herself, leading to an unusual transformation, and leaving the neighbors and their dogs to envy her. —IMDb

Director

Regina Pessoa

Regina Pessoa was born in 1969 in Coimbra, Portugal. In 1992, she embarked on her career in animation film by working at Filmógrafo, a production company in Porto. There she worked as an animator, and collaborated on three shorts by Abi Feijo: Os Salteadores/The Brigands (1993), Fado Lusitanio (1995) and Clandestino/Clandestine (2000). In 1999, she made her first short film, A Noite/Night, using the difficult technique of engraving on plaster. A Noite/Night won awards in several festivals. She continued with Historia tragica com final feliz/Tragic Story With Happy Ending (2005), co-produced by the French studio Folimage, the Portuguese studio Ciclope Filmes and the National Film Board of Canada. The filmmaker has been technically innovative with her ink drawings scratched on to glossy paper. Tragic Story with Happy Ending garnered many awards, including grand prizes at the Festival d’Annecy (France) and at the SICAF in Seoul… read more