Big Fish & Begonia
Animation for Adults
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1h 45m
Leaving February 1
Directed by Xuan Liang and Chun Zhang | 105 mins | 2016
“Spirited Away” meets “The Little Mermaid” in this gorgeously crafted fantasy blockbuster—a tale of shapeshifting, interspecies love and sacrifice sprung from ancient Chinese fables. The teenaged Chun—one of a mythical race of beings residing beneath the ocean—visits earth in the form of a red dolphin. When she gets trapped in a net, a young man nobly frees her, only to perish himself. Chun’s decision to resurrect him throws her world’s ecosystem into chaos.
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Directed by Signe Baumane | 89 mins | 2014
Armed with a surrealist sensibility and a wicked sense of humor, New York-based Latvian animator Signe Baumane has long probed the thorny parts of life as a woman. Here, hand-drawn imagery combines with papier-mache sets and stop-motion techniques in an ...
