My Life As A Courgette

My Life as a Courgette (French: Ma vie de Courgette; also titled My Life as a Zucchini) is a 2016 Swiss-French stop motion comedy-drama film directed by Claude Barras.

Plot
After losing his mother, a young boy is sent to a foster home with other orphans his age where he begins to learn the meaning of trust and true love.

Why It Rocks

 * 1) The film takes on mature themes but never fails to keep its child-like tone and innocence throughout the film. This also greatly suits the film's status as one that is almost entirely focused on children and has them serving as it's main characters.
 * 2) Amazing stop-motion animation. While it does look a bit uncanny (a common trait when it comes to stop-motion), it still looks very good and it's not THAT uncanny (apart from the character designs, but even those aren't so bad after a while) after watching the film enough to get used to it.
 * 3) Great voice-acting for both French and English.
 * 4) The film is not one of those animated films that try to stay "cute". It uses character designs that look average, which makes the movie look great.
 * 5) Impactful and colorful aesthetics, which cause an array of vibrancy spreads across the screen.
 * 6) Wonderful visuals that remind viewers when it was toys over tablets (when they were very young). It basically serves as a nostalgic treat for teenagers.
 * 7) Every single character is unique, sympathetic, and likable (excluding Camille's aunt). Each of the orphans have a distinct backstory and personality, and the fact that there so complex and well-developed and established in spite of the film's incredibly short runtime is remarkable.
 * 8) Clever pacing, considering the movie's barely over an hour. As despite it's short runtime, it still manages to perfectly establish the story, characters, and has phenomenal worldbuilding as well.
 * 9) The black comedy is very hilarious and enjoyable.
 * 10) The ending is very bittersweet and emotional. Courgette and Camille are adopted by Raymond, but are forced to leave their friends at the orphanage behind (and, as Simon mentions, it's rare for children their age to be adopted), though Zucchini writes a letter to the orphanage children, reassuring them that he still loves them.
 * 11) This film doesn't feature the stereotype of orphan employees who love making the orphans suffer.

The Only Bad Quality

 * 1) The designs can take some time to get used to.

Reception
The film has a rating of 98% on Rotten Tomatoes, based on 130 reviews, with an average rating of 8.19/10. The site's critical consensus reads, "My Life as a Zucchini's silly title and adorable characters belie a sober story whose colorful visuals delight the senses even as it braves dark emotional depths." On Metacritic, the film received a rating of 85 out of 100, based on 28 critics, indicating "universal acclaim".

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