Friday, February 10, 2012
Film Oscar-nominated short animations: La Luna
Posted by J.R. Jones on 02.10.12 at 11:00 AM
Pixar always cleans up at Oscar time, but if its sweet, slight La Luna beats out Dimanche, A Morning Stroll, or The Fantastic Flying Books of Morris Lessmore, we'll know the fix is really in. Director Enrico Casarosa applies the studio's rich digital style to a tall tale in which two old fishermen and their young charge climb a ladder into the sky and prowl around a small, moon-like satellite covered with luminescent, star-shaped gold rocks. The old guys are nicely realized, their dialogue a succession of wordless vocalizations, though the kid is standard-issue childhood wonder, with giant eyes and a tiny mouth. The short is over before it even gets started, in the fashion of something cooked up to introduce a blockbuster feature. A brief clip follows the jump.
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