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My Life as a Zucchini (Ma vie de courgette)
After losing his mother, a young boy is sent to a foster home with other orphans his age where he begins to learn the meaning of trust and true love.
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1975, Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
29 March 1961, Endicott, New York, USA
27 January 1956, Los Angeles, California, USA
26 June 1970, Joliet, Illinois, USA
13 August 1972, Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, France
1963, Orléans, Loiret, France
13 February 1969, Paris, France
10 April 1977, Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA
21 February 1987, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
17 June 1970, Alameda County, California, USA
June 05, 2017
Hankies at the ready.
June 05, 2017
The upfront acknowledgement in My Life as a Courgette that many childhoods play out with nary a hint of magic, sparkle or sugar to help the medicine go down feels unorthodox and bracing.
June 05, 2017
It is, admittedly, cute and tender, a smooth and sensitive approach to the lives of abandoned children who are thinking and dealing with issues they should simply never have to contemplate.
June 08, 2017
A beautiful surprise with moments of sweetness, where the orphans learn to comfrot each other. [Full review in Spanish]
March 03, 2017
The film is a real rarity, made even more so by the fact that what has moved us so profoundly are a bunch of pop-eyed plasticine figures.
June 13, 2017
The film is a beautifully balanced visual marvel.
March 03, 2017
The sins of the fathers (and mothers) are visited upon the children in Claude Barras's brief, stop-motion tale of little ones finding love among the ruins.
March 09, 2017
The movie can be funny and heartbreaking at once-Zucchini's only keepsake of his mother is an empty beer can-though in the end what registers most is the children's resilience when "there's nobody left to love us."
June 08, 2017
Colourful, emotive and nuanced, My Life As a Courgette is a Swiss/French stop-motion film that doesn't shy away from the sobering realities of many children in care homes.
March 08, 2017
Along with the kids' sorrow, Barras works uplift and lightness into the story, and there are moments of great joy.
March 02, 2017
It may not sound like it, but calling this barely 70-minute Swiss stop-motion film "heavy" - as in substantial and almost swollen with feeling - is a true compliment.
March 09, 2017
Seeing the world through a child's eyes can be pretty eye-opening. Watching My Life as a Zucchini, the altogether marvelous and Oscar-nominated stop-action animated film by director Claude Barras, that world is one you will not soon forget.
