A little while ago, I came across a little movie that was hailed by some as a masterpiece and had won an Oscar as best short animation. La Maison en Petits Cubes features an old man living alone in a town that has become submerged. His answer to the slowly rising water is to keep building on to his original home by placing cubes on top of cubes to keep out of the water. When he loses his favorite pipe, he dons scuba gear to retrieve it. As he descends and sees the earlier levels of his home (now submerged) he relives his life and love in his mind.
I feel that this is one of those movies of which you don’t need to say much, and trying to analyze it takes away its meaning. All I can say is I really enjoyed the soft drawn and sentimental twelve minutes this film provided me with.
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Oddly, while the film maker is Japanese, the original title
is French and the artwork does not look Asian-inspired. |
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