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‘10 Lives’ Review: Christopher Jenkins’ Cosy Family Animation Deals With Animal Magic And Loss – Sundance Film Festival
There’s quite a lot going on beneath the shiny, fun surface of this animated comedy, though some of the questions it deals with — animal mortality, the world’s fragile eco-system — might be too muc…
He fails, however, to read the small print: each time he loses a life, he will come back as a different animal, a call-back to the film’s cryptic cold-open, in which a horse frantically stampedes its way towards Rose’s cottage. Traumatized by a childhood sting, which resulted in public humiliation and an undignified bottom-related nickname, Craven is planning to let the world’s bee population die, so he can replace them with his AI equivalents. The craft is top-notch and quite magical, notably in a scene in which Beckett, now a rat, climbs a bulging drainpipe, but there’s also an unassuming, genteel Britishness that will appeal to parents — well, more likely grandparents — brought up on Halas and Batchelor, Camberwick Green and The Herbs.
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