Film
My Life as a Courgette
- Director
- Claude Barras
- Certificate
- PG
- Running Time
- 66 mins
It ain’t just Aardman that does stop-motion animation, y’know. This Oscar and Golden Globe nominated Swiss feature is a universally acclaimed bittersweet comedy adapted from Gilles Paris’ novel Autobiographie d’une Courgette by Tomboy and Girlhood director Céline Sciamma.
Parents should perhaps be warned that the film doesn’t shy away from the reasons why its nine-year-old protagonist came to live in an orphanage surrounded by other similarly abused nippers, but this helps to ground the Tim Burton-esque fable in real emotion. At least until the impossibly upbeat happy ending. You may wish to note that all of the Watershed’s screenings are dubbed.
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