{"id":26094,"date":"2017-08-13T18:34:26","date_gmt":"2017-08-13T22:34:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=26094"},"modified":"2017-08-13T18:35:24","modified_gmt":"2017-08-13T22:35:24","slug":"a-boy-and-his-beast-un-garcon-et-sa-bete-2017-oceanside-international-film-festival-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/13\/a-boy-and-his-beast-un-garcon-et-sa-bete-2017-oceanside-international-film-festival-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"A Boy and His Beast (Un Garcon et Sa b\u00eate) (2017) [Oceanside International Film Festival 2017]"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>A young aristocratic boy adopts a dog on his birthday.\u00a0 As he teaches his dog tricks and learns to love his pet, something happens and he meets a surprise in the family\u2019s yard.<\/p>\n

Written by Crystal Perea and directed by Calley MacDonald, this short stop-motion animation film is adorably cute and funny.\u00a0 The story shows a lot of heart and love in a family that is rather strict and not accepting of new things.\u00a0 The boy at the center of it all is the black sheep of his family and is shown as a sweet, loving boy.\u00a0 The way the story is built, the surprise near the end is not evident or easily guessed.\u00a0 While there is indeed more to this story than first meets the eye, it all makes sense in a way.\u00a0 This story is loving and filled with just the right amount of humor to make it a comedy but without going overboard silly.\u00a0 The film has very little dialog, almost none really, and it shares its story and emotions through well done animation and through its music.<\/p>\n

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The stop-motion animation here is great.\u00a0 The character design is interesting and the animation itself is done thoughtfully and with talent.\u00a0 The animation is as good as that seen in much bigger budget film and done with an attention to detail that shows the filmmakers knew what they were doing.\u00a0 The animation team working under supervisor Briana Ornelas does amazing work here and animates the characters, human and otherwise, in a way that brings them to life and with details like blinking, crying, small changes in smiles that add to the film\u2019s emotions and how the audience connects with it.<\/p>\n

Also adding to the emotions is the music by composer Alexander Burke.\u00a0 It adds a touch of whimsy to a film already full of fun and emotions.\u00a0 The film\u2019s feelings are passed through this music a lot as the character speak very little.\u00a0 This makes the film easily accessible to people who speak any language without the need for subtitles or translation per sey.\u00a0 The bulk of the communication is non-verbal and the music supports this and adds to it in a beautiful, happy way.<\/p>\n

A Boy and His Beast is a lovely, charming, and fun stop-motion animation film.\u00a0 It shows a lot of talent from all involved.\u00a0 It must be noted that in a field often dominated by men, this short was made by an almost all women team, except for the music department, a producer, and two consultants.\u00a0 The creative team assembled here shows that female-led projects can be successful and charming without going the saccharine route.\u00a0 This short is a fun, charming watch with lots of talent involved in making it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A young aristocratic boy adopts a dog on his birthday.\u00a0 As he teaches his dog tricks and learns to love his pet, something happens and he meets a surprise in the family\u2019s yard. Written by Crystal Perea and directed by Calley MacDonald, this short stop-motion animation film is adorably cute and funny.\u00a0 The story shows […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,12],"tags":[99,219,367,501,938,989],"class_list":["post-26094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-indie","category-movie-reviews","tag-animation","tag-comedy","tag-foreign","tag-indie-film","tag-short-film","tag-stop-motion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26094"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26094\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26096,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26094\/revisions\/26096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}