Australia • d: Adam Elliot • R • 1h 35m
Is it possible to endure an existence of deprivation and loss and yet still love your life? Australian Oscar-winning writer-director Adam Elliot (Max and Mary) answers this complicated question with charm, graceful wisdom and a flamboyant display of innovative, charming stop-motion animation. Grace (Sarah Snook), an outcast who longs for her lost twin Gilbert (Kodi Smit-McPhee) recounts her lonely saga on the occasion of the death of Pinky (Jackie Weaver), a crusty, cigar-smoking lady adventurer whose tiny acts of kindness are the one bright light in Grace’s dark world. Nick Cave, Jacki Weaver and Eric Bana also lend their voices, and Elliot adds a startling and thrilling amount of physical comedy into the flow of the story. Memoir ingeniously blends Dickensian melodrama with bawdy comedy and an uncanny eye for the physical debris we accumulate in our lives, thus confirming Guillermo del Toro’s axiom: Animation IS cinema!
About the Telluride Film Festival
The Telluride Film Festival has been, for the last 50 years, a celebration of the art of film: honoring the great masters of the cinema, discovering the rare and unknown, bringing new works by the world’s greatest directors and the latest in American independent film to a small mountain town in Colorado. The New York Times called Telluride “the smallest, most original, and most stimulating of the major festivals,” while Entertainment Tonight simply said it was “the world’s best festival.”
About Telluride By The Sea
The Music Hall and the Telluride Film Festival collaborate on an exclusive presentation of six new features, brought directly from their Colorado debuts. This unique and intimate Portsmouth event treats audience members from across the Northeast to an exclusive peek into the Telluride experience—packing one September weekend in Portsmouth with the latest international cinema, private parties, great music, delicious food, and inspired conversations with other cinephiles of all ages, tastes, and backgrounds.
Schedule
Fri., 9/13 • 7pm • Conclave
Sat., 9/14 • 1pm • Memoir of a Snail
Sat., 9/14 • 3:30pm • Nickel Boys
Sat., 9/14 • 7:30pm • Saturday Night
Sun., 9/15 • 12pm • The Seed of the Sacred Fig
Sun., 9/15 • 4pm • Will & Harper
Sun., 9/15 • 7:30pm • Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight
