Memoir of a Snail

Memoir of a Snail

Director: Adam Elliot
Country: Australia

German Premiere
2024 | 94 min. | English
Subtitles: German
FSK 12

Cast_ Sarah Snook, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Eric Bana, Jacki Weaver, Magda Szubanski, Dominique Pinon Screenplay_ Adam Elliot Camera_ Gerald Thompson Producer_ Liz Kearney, Adam Elliot Rights_ Charades

Separated after the death of their parents, twins Grace and Gilbert desperately hope to be reunited. A bittersweet, virtuoso claymation drama for adults.

Grace thinks back with melancholy. After the loss of her mother, she grew up with her loving but paraplegic and alcoholic father. Following his early death, she was separated from her beloved twin brother. Out of grief and loneliness, Grace withdrew like a snail into a hard shell. Eventually, however, she meets an adorably eccentric older lady called Pinky. The two become friends. And suddenly even love seems possible for Grace.

Exuberantly imaginative, idiosyncratic animated cinema by Oscar winner Adam Eliot, featuring the voices of Nick Cave, Eric Bana and Sarah Snook (Succession).

Director

The films of Australian Oscar winner Adam Elliot have been shown at over a thousand festivals, across a career spanning more than three decades. Acting stars such as Philip Seymour Hoffman and Toni Colette have lent their voices to his animated films. ›Memoir of a Snail‹ is his first feature-length film in 15 years.

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