Returning to theaters for the first time since 2012, It’s Such a Beautiful Day (2012) + ME (2024) has been hailed by critics and audiences alike as one of the best animated films of all time. Originally released as three short films over the course of six years, the picture was captured entirely in-camera on a 35mm rostrum animation stand. In 2012, the three completed short films about a man named Bill, struggling to put together his fractured psyche, were seamlessly combined to create a new feature film. Upon its original release, It’s Such a Beautiful Day (2012) + Me (2024) was named by many critics as one of the best films of the year.
Don Hertzfeldt’s newest animated film ME is a 22-minute musical odyssey about trauma, technology, and the retreat of humanity into itself. Indiewire has described it as “soul-shaking” and “a triumph.”
A truly moving meditation on identity, family and (as the title of his previous short immodestly put it) the meaning of life, Hertzfeldt’s magnum opus is more cosmically satisfying than The Tree of Life.
Hollywood Reporter
One of the great films about memory, perspective and past history.
Little White Lies
| Genre |
AnimationComedyDrama
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| Runtime | 62 minutes + 22 minutes |
| Rated | N/A |
| Directed By | Don Hertzfeldt |
| Starring | Sara Cushman, Don Hertzfeldt |
| Language | English |
| Country |
USA
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