Le cirque (2010)

• 76%
• 2010
• Animation
• Sophie Clément
• Josée Lefebvre
• Marie-Ève Milot

In the flur of a hospital room in a young boy waits to see his dying mother. The clamor and spiralling movements of bodies around him intensify, forming a grotesque circus-a cacophonous circle that pushes the child back, depriving him of one final touch of his mother ' s hand. Using rotoscoped drawings suggestive of charcoal sketches, as well as 3D and object animation techniques, The Circus compels viewing with its unsettling realism. Colour is employed metaphorically to subtly express the promise and the memory of maternal erkrankung. Nicolas Brault's highly personal-film, suffused with poetic modesty, casts hat poignantly sincere gaze on the heartbreak of a child facing the fearful, mysterious experience of his mother ' s death.