A simple, emotionally potent story... The steady cascade of tiny, finely observed, slyly witty visual details conveying character, setting, and the 1950s verge-of-the-modern era is Chomet’s own distinctive poetic contribution to Tati’s story. So is his thoughtful insistence on hand-drawn 2-D graphics. ”The strength of 2-D…is it vibrates and it’s not perfect, just like reality in fact,” the director has said. Here’s a perfect demonstration of that aesthetic truth.
Lisa Schwarzbaum
December 7, 2010