It's Such a Beautiful Day
- sombre
- measured
- surreal
- twisty
- signature
- intimate
Sombre, measured, gentle animation / drama, surreal in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, tender.
How every film is hand-scored →Dark and troubling events force Bill to reckon with the meaning of his life.
Our read · It's Such a Beautiful Day (2011) reads as a sombre, measured, surreal animation · drama · comedy entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, tender in temperature, ambivalent in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
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The shape of It's Such a Beautiful Day
What watching it is actually like.
“You want a profound short animation meditating on life, illness, memory and beauty.”
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The reading.
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