Be careful, cute in sight! The film named to the Oscars for Best Animation Film Marcel the shell (with his shoes) Disembarks on your flickered screens and in physical format! What (re)discover this little wonder of stop-motion from the United States...
Metro, bulot, dodo
Marchel the shell and his parents Dean Fleischer-Camp and Jenny Slate (Marcel's voice) will have been able to keep all their independence for the passage of YouTube star (to discover around here!) star of the big screen. Indeed, it is by keeping exactly the same device as their initial videos (stop-motion in a real shooting environment) that this feature film turns. We will find there the tiny shell Marcel, orphan of his family and dumped with his grandmother Connie (with the voice of the immense Isabella Rossellini), in a house transformed into Airbnb following the breakup of the former owners.
Thus, Dean Fleischer Camp opts for the mockumentary (documenter, in good French) to narrate the story of his little shell unworked in the face of the disappearance of his family. If the themes are not happy for an animated film – impermanence, old age, senility, the absence of the family – the multitude of visual finds brings a trick that delights the eye as much as the mind: never does the film become heavy, embossed or big hoof, on the contrary! Ideas are swarming: honey under the shoes of this lively little bulot to allow him to climb up to the walls to the tennis balls serving him 4×4, from the relationship to the insects to the drawing of this family tree engraved in the woods to remember his disappeared family, Marcel the shell is constantly innovative and therefore gripping.
Rase-moquette
Better, this small shell allows Dean Fleischer-Camp to take a child's look: filming at the bottom of the floor, showing these unsurpassable obstacles that an adult would have taken with one step, portraying a green plant like a jungle, a garden like a world... And like these plush dolls and dolls that we animate being a kid to find an interlocutor for our own questions, Dean Fleischer-Camp, from his adult position, will reverse the process: to give life to this insignificant shell, naive, tiny, to remind him that to cynicism of an adult existence, to his despairs in love and to his financial difficulties, there remains a piece of this childhood that was thought lost and that made us see life with so much bonhomy.
A transmission story...
A moving process, exciting in what he tells of transmission, thanks in particular to the relationship developed between Marcel and his grandmother Connie, the only survivor of the rest of his family. The latter being incarnated vocally by none other than Isabella Rossellini (daughter ofIngrid Bergman and Roberto Rossellini, just that , the great actress shot in the masterpieces of Lynch , but also for Zemeckis , Peter Weir , and j-en passe ), which magnifies her score without swindling or stealing violins . The wave of emotion is the image of the feature film, simple and sincere.
A sincerity that reflected into form, since as the director himself indicates, all he feared with this project was to transvestinate the very essence of the original short films by creating a conventional animation commissioned by a large studio. And God knows if the visual result is at the rendezvous, with a rather simplistic original design as Dean Fleischer-Camp recalls in the quote below.
« I bought a snail shell, modelling paste and a plastic eye. Finally, I found the shoes in my local grocery store. They come from a box of Polly Pocket counterfeit. The total budget was $6. »
Not one shell?
Well, a little black dot to this animation jewel, its length... To want to stick to the standards of the hour and a half of film, Marcel the shell (with his shoes) drags in its wake some soft stomachs stuffed with a filling substance far not unpleasant, but which would have preferred to be amputated. A small defect to a large film.
In short, Marcel the shell (with his shoes) will be the perfect cuteness, whether you are between adults or accompanied by children. A particularly neat animated film, sharp with the rest of the offer mainstream of this kind of feature films. A very nice surprise therefore, to (re)discover in physical format... And to prolong the pleasure, do not miss the making-of (17 min) and behind the special effects of Marcel by Bottleship (2 min)!
Data sheet
Blu-ray Region B (France)
Publisher: L
Duration: 90 min
Release date: 07 November 2023
Video format : 1080p/24 – 1.56
Soundtrack : English and French DTS-HD MA 5.1
Subtitles French
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