1998 Directed by Sheldon Cohen
A grandmother tells her young grandchild the moving tale of a lonely girl and an unforgettable magical cat in this animated short narrated by Oscar®, Emmy and Tony award winner Maureen Stapleton. The film is based on a short story written by Dayal Kaur Khalsa and adapted by two-time Governor General's award recipient Tim Wynne-Jones.
Canada
Canada
not at all ashamed to say this makes me tear up
the animation style of the snow cat story is so unique and beautiful and perfectly captures the feeling of cold, dark winter nights... top quality short film, highly recommend
oh this was too sad.....having a cat and not being able to let it inside....reminds me of when i played harvest moon on the gamecube as a kid and your cat and dog couldnt be brought inside, even when it rained. and what's worse, there was only one little doghouse! the dog would instinctually go inside the house, and the cat would just sulk under some trees. of course the cat couldnt go in the doghouse due to not being programmed to do so, but, being much more of a cat lover....i would go to the other end of my farm, call the dog, catch him and put him in the enclosed pasture (you couldnt put the pets in the…
“Ah, but this was no ordinary cat. His teeth and bones were made from icicles, and his eyes from hail stones... and as for the the rest, he was made completely out of snow!”
Sheldon Cohen’s beautiful adaptation of the children’s story by Dayal Kaur Khalsa is a magical little creation with many layers. Bookended by colourful sequences in which a grandmother tells her granddaughter the story, ‘Snow Cat’ never loses the cosiness of these framing portions of the narrative, particularly with Maureen Stapleton’s warm delivery of the narrative, and yet the story itself is rendered in chilly white line drawings against a black background. Cohen uses these white images ingeniously. The world outside the cabin is icy white and you can feel the chilliness in every frame, while inside the cabin the crackling fire plays against the white lines in a way that makes you feel toasty warm. The story itself is a…
