Memoir of a Snail

Oct 17, 2024

1h 34m

★ 8.1

Life can only be understood backwards, but we have to live it forwards.

Overview

Forcibly separated from her twin brother when they are orphaned, a melancholic misfit learns how to find confidence within herself amid the clutter of misfortunes and everyday life.

Genres

Animation

Drama

Comedy

Production Companies

Arenamedia

MIFF Premiere Fund

Memoir of a Snail Trailers

Cast

Grace (voice)

Sarah Snook

Gilbert (voice)

Kodi Smit-McPhee

Pinky (voice)

Jacki Weaver

Ruth Appleby (voice)

Magda Szubanski

Percy Pudel (voice)

Dominique Pinon

Ken (voice)

Tony Armstrong

Ian / Narelle (voice)

Paul Capsis

James the Magistrate (voice)

Eric Bana

Owen Appleby (voice)

Bernie Clifford

Ben Appleby (voice)

Davey Thompson

Young Grace (voice)

Charlotte Belsey

Young Gilbert (voice)

Mason Litsos

I turned my gaze to the various events in daily life and made this filmic diary in a manner as if confessing my feelings. Of course, since I was making the film, I wanted to depict these feelings and events with tricky techniques. I used various methods to shoot photographs of a relative's wedding, the landscape I see from window of my house, commemorative travel photographs and the like frame-by-frame.

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