Tournées Film Festival: Louise by the Shore

Free admission! Louise by the shore (Laguionie, 2016) follows an elderly widow who is stranded in a ghost town with a raggedy talking dog. A rare example of animation primarily aimed at an adult audience, Louise by the Shore has been compared in the pages of French film journal Cahiers du Cinéma to an episode of The Twilight Zone revisited by Jacques Tati (with a hint of Proust for good measure). But this offbeat gem is truly one of a kind and a welcome reminder from French veteran Jean-François Laguionie that animation can be a medium for quiet lyricism and characters rarely given center stage in live action film. Not Rated.

Part of the French Tournées Film Festival. For more information, see blog.ung.edu/tournees