lumps of clay that speak french made me cry?????

A zucchini has no real flavour of its own. When combined with the right ingredients and treated properly it takes on all flavours surrounding it, thus becoming part of the whole.

This is a metaphor, I'm not suggesting you should eat children.

Also watch this film. And be good to those you love.

And to those you don't love.

Just watch this film ok?

85

Consider myself floored, especially by its minimal runtime (70 minutes) and how it still manages to juggle the flow of childhood language, implications of the harrowing, and young, lost groups being revitalized by their respective traumas throughout an isolated, rudimentary setup. I can't praise this little movie enough. So many feels, so many truths, and yet always moving along a nice, quiet stream of compassion and kindness, never over-stuffing itself or settling for less.

whoops, went through a year
supply of Kleenex in a single hour.

*wipes tear*
This movie blends the purity and curiousity of childhood with the horrifyingly ugliness that is reality and it does so flawlessly. Every damn line comes with so much depth. It’s also in stop motion. 

So in other words, this is extremely my thing.

claymation invented depression

this film is so sweet and heartwarming. I now have a soft spot in my heart for little round lumps of clay

The juxtaposition of cute and sad is horrifically trite at this point in time.

it phillip

This movie hit me in my feelings. As someone who spent time in a group home, this movie touched me in a way that only a movie can. Severely underrated, please watch this movie.

Poor little Courgette :(

Delicate

One of the best animated movies I've ever seen. The stop-motion animation is gorgeous and smooth. This really is a modern animated version of The 400 Blows, being about...the genuine hardships and difficulty of being a child, and particularly how fucked-up the foster system is, not just in the US, but worldwide (this film being set in France). I don't really have much to say--as others have brought up, the zucchini is a metaphor for being molded by your surroundings, as zucchini is a vegetable that is highly influenced by the ingredients paired with it. I ought to watch more indie animated films. It's a shame this movie lost to Zootopia for Best Animated Picture. Damn you, animated movie voting committee!

I keep deeply falling in love more and more every time I watch this beautiful and heart-warming film <3

All praises to the youth,
The beacon of light
In an abysmal world of darkness,
Resilient and kind,
Representing the glimmers of hope
We so desperately need
Forever and ever,
Radiating gold from heaven,
With skies that stretch beyond war