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The Red Turtle
Why this pick
Like My Life as a Zucchini, it uses handcrafted animation and spare dialogue to approach loneliness, loss, and resilience with unusual gentleness rather than sentimentality.
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MOVIE2016 1h 6m CHE
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Why this pick
Its child’s-eye perspective, tactile animation, and compassionate treatment of hardship echo Zucchini’s ability to find playfulness, friendship, and dignity amid painful circumstances.
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Song of the Sea
Why this pick
This visually lyrical fable shares Zucchini’s respect for childhood grief: it is bittersweet, imaginative, and ultimately healing without talking down to its young characters.
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A Cat in Paris
Why this pick
Another compact French-language animated story that trusts children with danger and sadness, balancing nocturnal suspense with a loving, humane family perspective.
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The Illusionist
Why this pick
For Zucchini’s quiet emotional register and economical storytelling, this dialogue-light animated drama offers a tender, melancholy relationship rendered with exquisite visual sensitivity.
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
Icare lives with his mother, who has become an alcoholic due to Icare's father abandoning the family. One day when his mom comes after him in a drunken rage, Icare accidentally pushes her down the stairs, causing her death. Later on, Icare makes a deposition to Police Officer Raymond. He informs him that he prefers to be called "Courgette", his mother's nickname for him. As mementos, he keeps one of his mom's beer cans and a kite he made with a drawing of his father as a superhero.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Gaspard Schlatter
Icare/Courgette
Sixtine Murat
Camille
Paulin Jaccoud
Simon
Raul Ribera
Ahmed
Estelle Hennard
Alice
Elliot Sanchez
Jujube
Lou Wick
Béatrice
Michel Vuillermoz
Raymond (voice)