{"id":1794,"date":"2016-12-14T08:00:52","date_gmt":"2016-12-14T08:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/corkcineclub.com\/?p=1794"},"modified":"2017-12-09T13:42:00","modified_gmt":"2017-12-09T13:42:00","slug":"my-life-as-a-courgette-france-thu-26-october-8pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/corkcineclub.com\/2016\/12\/my-life-as-a-courgette-france-thu-26-october-8pm\/","title":{"rendered":"MY LIFE AS A COURGETTE [FRANCE], THU 26 OCTOBER, 8PM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4d9N5Y_sN8Q\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\"><em><strong>The first-ever animated (stop motion) film shown by Cork Cine Club! \u00a0<\/strong><strong>Academy Award nominee, Best Animated Feature 2017.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Here is a little miracle of gentleness, tenderness and intense, traditional Frenchness. It was an Oscar nominee for best animated feature earlier this year, losing out, probably unjustly, to\u00a0Zootopia. The screenwriter\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2015\/apr\/26\/girlhood-film-karidja-toure-assa-sylla-celine-sciamma\">C\u00e9line Sciamma<\/a>\u00a0[Girlhood] has adapted the 2002 novel Autobiography of a Courgette by Gilles Paris for this beguiling stop-motion animation. \u00a0Director Claude Barras makes his feature debut.<\/p>\n<p>The characters\u2019 faces are big, almost like\u00a0Charles Schulz&#8217; Peanuts figures, and very expressive and subtle. It is the story of a little boy fond of kites who is interestingly named Icare but goes by his nickname: Courgette. A terrible accident means he is taken to a home in the country for orphaned kids, where everyone has a grim, secret story and the children\u2019s growing awareness that no one really wants them manifests itself in all sorts of tough behaviour.<\/p>\n<p>But after a rough start, Courgette makes friends with Simon and forms a\u00a0<em>tendresse\u00a0<\/em>for Camille. Meanwhile, the lonely, unhappy cop who dealt with Courgette\u2019s case, Raymond, has taken a kindly interest in his continued welfare.<\/p>\n<p>It is a lovely little film, coming in at a novella-size 66 minutes. I loved the home\u2019s emotional wallchart, the M\u00e9t\u00e9o des Enfants, showing their mood swings from sunny to cloudy.&#8221; &#8211; Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8216;A beautifully balanced visual marvel&#8230;full of decency and kindness&#8217;.<\/em> &#8211;\u00a0\u2605\u2605\u2605\u2605\u2605 <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/culture\/film\/my-life-as-a-courgette-a-beautifully-balanced-visual-marvel-1.3104062\">The Irish Times<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8216;A frank and affecting animation about abused youngsters finding strength through solidarity&#8230;\u00a0this beautifully tender and empathetic film addresses kids and adults alike in clear and compassionate tones that span \u2013 and perhaps heal \u2013 generations&#8230;only the most hard-hearted viewer could fail to love these youngsters&#8217;.<\/em> &#8211; \u2605\u2605\u2605\u2605\u2605 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2017\/jun\/04\/my-life-as-courgette-review?CMP=share_btn_fb\"><strong>The Telegraph<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>MA VIE DE COURGETTE |Switzerland, France, 2017 | Language: French | 70 minutes | Cert: 12A<\/p>\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\">Director:\u00a0Claude Barras<\/p>\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\">Cast: \u00a0Gaspard Schlatter, Sixtine Murat, Paulin Jaccourd<\/p>\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\">A short Irish film, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/breathefilm.info\/\">Breathe<\/a><\/strong>, [14 minutes] will be shown before the feature. \u00a0A macho Traveller [John Connors] becomes increasingly concerned that his young son is soft. \u00a0Director: James Doherty<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first-ever animated (stop motion) film shown by Cork Cine Club! \u00a0Academy Award nominee, Best Animated Feature 2017. &#8220;Here is a little miracle of gentleness, tenderness and intense, traditional Frenchness&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1805,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,16],"tags":[32,31,18,22,29,28,21,24,19,23],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/corkcineclub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1794"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/corkcineclub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/corkcineclub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corkcineclub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corkcineclub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1794"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/corkcineclub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1877,"href":"https:\/\/corkcineclub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1794\/revisions\/1877"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corkcineclub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/corkcineclub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corkcineclub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corkcineclub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}