My Life as a Zucchini

Director: Claude Barras

2016 / 70min / DCP

Co-written by Céline Sciamma, Barras’s enviably economical stop-motion marvel adapting Gilles Paris’s Autobiography of a Zucchini, follows young Icare, nicknamed Zucchini, as he’s orphaned following an accidental matricide and sent to a facility for ill-used kids of all kinds. Never mawkish but unstintingly generous towards its characters and admiring of the resilience of children. “[Barras and Sciamma] maintain their sardonic humor and sensitivity even when their material is horrific. Their movie is a triumph of talent and poise… My Life as a Zucchini has grace and charm, but what breaks your heart is its mental toughness.” —Film Comment

Distributor: GKIDS

Part of Screen Time at Metrograph