Here are review links for this film submitted by our members:
- Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: The animation here is distinctive, an unusual palette of salmons and peaches against unnatural greens and pinks used for us to view nature through the eyes of a toddler.
- Jared Mobarak @ Hey, have you seen …?
- Excerpt: The film’s animation style suits this truth too with its impressionistic color fields creating dimensionality rather than relying upon outlines. It lets the real and surreal overlap so the drama is always filtered through this child’s eyes.
- Jacob Oller @ The A.V. Club
- Excerpt: Based on Amélie Nothomb’s autofiction The Character Of Rain, the animated film from directors Maïlys Vallade and Liane-Cho Han is both a fantastical memoir and precocious coming-of-age story that doesn’t need to venture past threenage.
- Christopher Reed @ Hammer to Nail
- Excerpt: Emotions are never oversold, instead landing with just the right notes. The end result is a lovely work of art that transports and transforms, exactly how a movie should.
- Nuno Reis @ Antestreia [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: É uma animação com uma bela mensagem e formato que nos leva de volta a uma fase em que éramos felizes sem noção de como isso muda depressa. Que sirva de lembrete para continuarmos a fazer do mundo um lugar bom para viver e crescer e que a morte chegue apenas quando a magia se esgotar.
- [New] | Sebastian Zavala @ Cinencuentro.com [Spanish]
- Excerpt: It is a short, simple (but never simplistic) film that tells us a lot about the power of friendship but also about memories, and that should resonate with both children and adults, making the latter also shed a few tears.
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