Marona's Fantastic Tale (Anca Damian)

[Philip J. Fry]

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Trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DweZRx-h588

IMDb (https://m.imdb.com/title/tt6785292/) / wiki (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marona's_Fantastic_Tale) / RT (https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/maronas_fantastic_tale) / Metacritic (https://www.metacritic.com/movie/maronas-fantastic-tale)

Official website (https://gkids.com/films/maronas-fantastic-tale/)

[Philip J. Fry]

This was very good. Framed as a dog's life flashing as she dies, it uses a somewhat deranged and free-flowing animation style to capture how a dog perceives the world and the passage of time to paint the very bittersweet life of a very, very good dog.

[Peng]

Lovely, uniquely expressionistic animation fits the vignette structure (and pov sensibility?) of a dog's life well. Giving the ending upfront is also a most bittersweet touch, giving gravitas to her musings in each passage, and it also makes that bus sequence, in which the animation goes purposefully free-floating for a sustained time, hit all the harder. 8/10