.jennyslate brings this tale of a talking seashell to life.
The easiest way to describe one of SXSW’s most irreverent 2022 titles,, would probably be a recommendation to go back and watch the shorts that it’s expanding upon.
The original trilogy of short films was spawned as a collaboration between director Dean Fleischer-Camp and actress/writer Jenny Slate, set up as mockumentary films that see stop-motion anthropomorphic seashell Marcel being interviewed about his life, interests, hobbies, what have you. The feature-length adaptation of these innocuously sweet and strange little films is very much in the same vein, with some added dramatic and emotional heft to carry the extended runtime. Marcel is still being interviewed for a documentary, but the periphery of his life is given much more substance.
Maybe the most surprising characteristic of Marcel’s world is how grounded in reality it really is. This captures the look and feel of a real, organic environment that this eccentric little talking seashell occupies, constructed through clever doc-style cinematography combined with beautiful composited stop-motion that puts him seamlessly within our world.
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