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The material adults look away from, carried in with the tools of a fairy tale.
The ticket promised balloons and a talking dog; the first minutes deliver a widower. Animation is the genre that carries into the family contract the material adults have trouble looking at, and it does not soften it: it hands it to the tools of the trade — the song, the comic sidekick, the invented world with its own laws, the object that comes back changed. The first volume collects the cases in which what was there to entertain starts carrying the weight: a bereavement, an emotion nobody wanted at the controls, a memory going out. The second works on characters reduced to a function — a name taken away, a place taken over, a flaw named before anything else — and on the effort it takes to win back your own size. For a writer it is the strictest school there is: clarity, economy, and an emotion that has to land without being explained.
A bereavement, a fratricide, a memory going out, a talent that landed in the wrong creature. Five films that do not turn down the volume of their material: they entrust it to the song, to the comic sidekick, to the object that returns transformed, and let the instrument of entertainment carry the weight.
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A girl signs for a job and her employer wipes out nearly every letter of her name. From that day on she has a shift, a task and nothing else. Five stories in which what is yours gets won back by working, by taking care of somebody else, by remembering: never by winning a fight.
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Two volumes on clarity and narrative economy. The first puts the adult load on the tools of the genre, the second follows characters winning back their size after being reduced to a function. Ten films where exposition travels through images and every object planted early comes back to collect.