Film Festival 09 - Coraline
Coraline
USA 2009, 100m
Director: Henry Selick
Festivals: Sydney 2009
Translated from the dark kid-lit of Neil Gaiman into the hand-made
(computer enhanced) 3-D dreamscapes of Nightmare Before Christmas
filmmaker Henry Selick, Coraline is the year's most richly imagined
Hollywood thrill ride. - Bill Gosden.
"Coraline is a young girl who discovers in her drab new home a
tunnel leading to a parallel world of brightness and profligacy,
where her parents are fun-loving instead of the workaholic drudges
they are in reality. But there is a catch: Coraline's 'Other
Mother' and 'Other Father' have buttons instead of eyes, and insist
that their daughter undergoes an equivalent transplant if she is to
remain in paradise& Coraline is the latest work in a vital
tradition that dates back to a time before the Brothers Grimm began
collecting their bloodcurdling tales. It's a fantasy that seduces
its young audience, then scares the bejesus out of them. It is, in
no uncertain terms, a horror film for children." - Ryan Gilbey, The
Guardian
