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‘Emotionally resonant’ animation wins top prize at London film festival
Jury names Adam Elliot’s Memoir of a Snail as best film in first for stop-motion feature
The official competition jury, which included the documentary film-maker Alexandre O Philippe and June Givanni, said: “Emotionally resonant and constantly surprising, Memoir tackles pertinent issues such as bullying, loneliness and grief head-on, creating a crucial and universal dialogue in a way that only animation can. Elliot first rose to prominence when he won an Oscar for his 2003 film Harvie Krumpet, “a Candide-like tale of a man struck in turn by Tourette’s, lightning, a cancerous testicle and Alzheimer’s”, which he followed with 2009’s Mary and Max, voiced by Toni Colette. The Guardian’s Peter Bradshaw said there was “an ingenuousness and innocence to Memoir of a Snail, a family-entertainment approachability that belies a strange intensity”, while adding that Elliot had a knack for “creating a distinctive kind of lovability and pathos and importantly an instinct for the underdog and the outsider”.
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