Join us in the Dunaway Community Meeting Room to view highly acclaimed films. Tickets are $10.00 (cash only), popcorn included, free for Friends of the Library.
About the film:
From this year’s Telluride Film Festival, Adam Elliot's latest film is a stunning addition to the filmmaker's "clayography," and the best reason to go to the movie this week. It's a work that's both crude and polished, funny and terribly sad (often simultaneously), and one of the loveliest films of 2024.
Grace and her twin brother navigate their way through a world that is not entirely dissimilar to ours. Grace Pudel is a book-loving, snail-collecting misfit that falls into a series of misfortunes after being separated from her twin brother Gilbert. Despite her hardships, inspiration and hope arise when Grace begins a friendship with an eccentric elderly woman named Pinky. From Academy Award-winning writer and director Adam Elliot, Memoir of a Snail is a heartfelt and hilarious chronicle of the life of an outsider finding her confidence and silver linings amongst the clutter of everyday life.
“A grubby delight, a stop-motion charmer that feels like falling into a dumpster and discovering an orchid.”. – Washington Post.
"Elliot's stop-motion animation work is nothing less than dazzling.” – Bay Area Reporter.
“A wonderfully strange movie.”-NPR (Los Angeles).
“That's the trick of Elliot's storytelling: Through animation and inside his artificial world, he tells one of the year's most human stories.”-Detroit News.
Rotten Tomatoes 94%.
100min. (Australia 2024) R
Monique Rodriguez, monique.rodriguez@pitkincounty.com