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You wish every child a father like the twins Gracie and Gilbert. Although Percy Poodel has been in a wheelchair for a tragic accident, the former magician shows his children how beautiful life can be despite all losses. He takes a roller coaster with them, reads adventure novels with them and is fun for everyone.
“Dad always said that childhood is like being drunk: everyone remember what you did, only you don’t,” says Gracie when she looks back on her life. However, contrary to the paternal assumption, she still knows every detail when she tells her story and that of her brother.
The two twins are a heart and a soul, their mother, Annie, they only remember from their father’s stories. Annie died at her birth. Her father still tries to show Gilbert and Gracie that childhood is the best time in life. But fate does not mean well with them.
“Memoirs of a snail” is (very!) Trist and beautiful at the same time
Percy Poodel dies in sleep, the siblings are separated. While Gracie comes to a childless couple who discovers the swinger lifestyle for herself, Gilbert lands at the other end of Australia in the garden of Eden by the religious fanatic apples, who actually sell holy apples and worship the child of Jesus.
Gilbert is forced to work with other foster children and subjected to the strict religious rules. In secret letters, he tells Gracie about this dreary and dreams of finding together one day.
Adam Elliot won the short film Oscar in 2004 with the stop-motion traicomedy “Harvie Krumpet”. “Memoirs of a snail” is after “Mary & Max or shrinking sheep when it rains?” (2009) his second full -ferment
Film, in 2025 he was nominated for the animation Oscar.
The story takes place in Australia and takes bonds with Charles Dickens and J. D. Salinger, but develops its own fascination out of itself. Elliot, who comes from Melbourne, has created its own world with its own world with its bizarre kneading figures and self -made scenes.
Memories of the “Peanuts”
You don’t accidentally feel reminded of the “Peanuts” stories of Charles M. Schulz. “Memoirs of a snail” is a melancholic parabola on life with all its beautiful and ugly sides.
While Gilbert defends himself against the religious idiocy of the AppleBies and jeopardizes his life, Gracie meets an older lady called Pinky, who, when she does not visit lonely people in nursing homes, gets with her joy of life for the slight moments in Gracies everyday life.
But even the sprightly pensioner cannot prevent her younger girlfriend from being withdrawn, in loneliness and self -pity. “The worst cages are those in which we volunteer,” Pinky knows from his own experience. Her story will give Gracie courage, strength and confidence to leave her snail house one day.
“You can only understand life in retrospect. But we have to look ahead,” Percy Poodel gave his children. Elliot implements this lesson in a fascinating film full of warmth, love and poetry.