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‘The Most Precious Of Cargoes’ Review: Michel Hazanavicius’ Animated Holocaust Fable Walks A Fine Line – Cannes Film Festival
‘The Most Precious Of Cargoes’ review: Michel Hazanavicius’s animated Holocaust fable walks a fine line – Cannes Film Festival
No, Cannes prefers its animation to be skewed towards adults, like René Lalou’s surreal sci-fi Fantastic Planet(1973), Robert Taylor’s raunchy sequel The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat(1974) or Ari Folman’s wartime docudrama Waltz with Bashir(2008). Having established the plight of the woodcutter and his wife, the film turns to the baby’s father, showing the desperation that led him to throw his child into the wilderness, and what awaits him at Auschwitz. In the film, as there was in the book, there’s a self-reflexivity there, one that waves the artificiality of its all-too-unlikely scenario in your face: The Most Precious of Cargoes is a friendly reminder that life is not fiction, and that much more important things can happen that are way beyond belief.
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