Memoir of a Snail (15)

★★★★ This Oscar-nominated animation with Sarah Snook is a darkly funny, oddball delight. Adam Elliot’s stop-motion tale of twins separated as children in Australia is an enchantingly weird life lesson for us all. ~ Evening Standard.
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From Academy Award-winning animation writer and director Adam Elliot, Memoir of a Snail is a poignant, heartfelt and hilarious chronicle of the life of an outsider finding her confidence and silver linings amongst the clutter of everyday life.
Grace Pudel is a lonely misfit with an affinity for collecting ornamental snails and an intense love for books.
At a young age, when Grace is separated from her fire-breathing twin brother Gilbert, she falls into a spiral of anxiety and angst.
Despite a continued series of hardships, inspiration and hope emerge when she strikes up an enduring friendship with an elderly eccentric woman named Pinky, who is full of grit and lust for life.
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★★★★ A unique Aussie stop-motion animation about coming out of your shell. ~ Time Out.
★★★★ A charming, poignant tale of troubled twins. ~ The Guardian.