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My Life as a Zucchini (Ma vie de courgette)

After losing his mother, a young boy is sent to a foster home with other orphans his age where he begins to learn the meaning of trust and true love.
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Sunday Times (UK)
June 05, 2017 It is, admittedly, cute and tender, a smooth and sensitive approach to the lives of abandoned children who are thinking and dealing with issues they should simply never have to contemplate.
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El Financiero
June 08, 2017 A beautiful surprise with moments of sweetness, where the orphans learn to comfrot each other. [Full review in Spanish]
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Sight and Sound
June 05, 2017 The upfront acknowledgement in My Life as a Courgette that many childhoods play out with nary a hint of magic, sparkle or sugar to help the medicine go down feels unorthodox and bracing.
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Chicago Reader
March 09, 2017 The movie can be funny and heartbreaking at once-Zucchini's only keepsake of his mother is an empty beer can-though in the end what registers most is the children's resilience when "there's nobody left to love us."
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Washington Post
March 02, 2017 It may not sound like it, but calling this barely 70-minute Swiss stop-motion film "heavy" - as in substantial and almost swollen with feeling - is a true compliment.
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San Diego Reader
March 03, 2017 The sins of the fathers (and mothers) are visited upon the children in Claude Barras's brief, stop-motion tale of little ones finding love among the ruins.
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Film Ireland Magazine
June 08, 2017 Colourful, emotive and nuanced, My Life As a Courgette is a Swiss/French stop-motion film that doesn't shy away from the sobering realities of many children in care homes.
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Seattle Times
March 08, 2017 Along with the kids' sorrow, Barras works uplift and lightness into the story, and there are moments of great joy.
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Chicago Sun-Times
March 09, 2017 Seeing the world through a child's eyes can be pretty eye-opening. Watching My Life as a Zucchini, the altogether marvelous and Oscar-nominated stop-action animated film by director Claude Barras, that world is one you will not soon forget.
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Christian Science Monitor
March 03, 2017 The film is a real rarity, made even more so by the fact that what has moved us so profoundly are a bunch of pop-eyed plasticine figures.
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Sunday Independent (Ireland)
June 05, 2017 Hankies at the ready.
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Irish Times
June 13, 2017 The film is a beautifully balanced visual marvel.
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IMDb: 7
2017
109 min
Country: United States
Genre: Thriller, Horror, Mystery
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