Harvie Krumpet

Year: 2003

Grade: B+

Country: Australia

Director: Elliot

Review

a surprisingly touching claymation short that won an academy award last year. it’s about a polish kid with tourette’s syndrome who grows up to be a rather unique american man. it’s just over twenty minutes long, but in that time we see him grow from a young child to an old man living out his years in an old folks home. the film’s major success (other than the animation) is its ability to relate the essence of its title character so succinctly and fully within such a short span of time. we feel every bit of good and bad luck that harvie experiences and doing that in this format, in this amount of time, is a pretty remarkable feat.

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