Singapore International Film Festival 2016
My Life As A Courgette
Rating
PG13 Some Sexual References
Language
French - subtitles to be advised
Cast
Gaspard Schlatter, Sixtine Murat, Paulin Jaccoud, Michel Vuillermoz
Synopsis
When nine-year-old Courgette’s mother meets with an unfortunate accident, he is orphaned and taken to a foster home. There, he meets other young orphans, all dealing with the scars of their difficult childhoods. At first, Courgette struggles to find his place and identity. But together, he and his new friends discover the beauty in life, and learn to love and trust again.
Based on French novelist Gilles Paris’ Autobiography of a Courgette, Barras and screenwriter Céline Sciamma (Tomboy, Girlhood) inject a dimensionality to each character in the film, paying particular attention to how their lives are shaped by experience and adversity. Tackling the tough social-realist issues that affect children, humanizing their struggles with painstaking honesty and refreshing clarity, My Life as a Courgette is not only a triumph of stop-motion animation, but a wonderfully resonant story for the ages.