For those who lack patience, watching stop-motion animation is akin to watching a magic trick. Even shortcuts don’t cut down the time-consuming process — and watching the Czech stop-motion animated film “Living Large,” the feature film debut from director Kristina Dufková, is a jaw-dropping wonder.
Nevermind the stop-motion characters; the Jury Award winner at the 2024 Annecy International Animated Film Festival also includes exotic animals rendered in stop-motion, along with multiple cooking sequences involved enough that the creators released a companion cooking book in the Czech Republic and France. Is it any wonder that Dufková spent 13 years on the film?
First introduced to the story — 12-year-old Ben is hit hard by puberty, which gives everyone a reason to comment on his weight, while juggling divorced parents, a burgeoning band with his friends, first love, and bullies — when she read Mikaël Ollivier’s novel aloud to her daughter, Dufková was determined to...
Nevermind the stop-motion characters; the Jury Award winner at the 2024 Annecy International Animated Film Festival also includes exotic animals rendered in stop-motion, along with multiple cooking sequences involved enough that the creators released a companion cooking book in the Czech Republic and France. Is it any wonder that Dufková spent 13 years on the film?
First introduced to the story — 12-year-old Ben is hit hard by puberty, which gives everyone a reason to comment on his weight, while juggling divorced parents, a burgeoning band with his friends, first love, and bullies — when she read Mikaël Ollivier’s novel aloud to her daughter, Dufková was determined to...
- 11/29/2024
- by Mark Peikert
- Indiewire
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