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Anatole's Little Saucepan

2014 · 6 min

A gentle, wordless-feeling animated short that turns a small burden into a quiet, tender metaphor for carrying what weighs on you.

Directed by: Eric Montchaud
Genres: Animation
Starring: Camille Kerdellant, Ingrid Coetzer

Overview: Anatole is always dragging his little pan behind him. It fell on him one day, for no reason. Ever since, it gets caught everywhere and prevents him from going forward. Anatole is fed up, so he hides. Luckily, things are not that simple.

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Directed by: Eric Montchaud
Genres: Animation
Starring: Camille Kerdellant, Ingrid Coetzer

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Tone: melancholicstrength 2 of 3
whimsicalstrength 2 of 3
warmstrength 1 of 3
Pacing: measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: isolation
identity
healing
freedom
Places: None
Era: contemporary
Audience: family
Form: animated
Content intensity: Gore none
Language none
Violence none
Sex none

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Action	1
Horror	1
Humour	3
Realism	4
Romance	1
Tension	3
Darkness	4
Complexity	5
Emotional weight	6

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Genres: animation
Directed by: Eric Montchaud
Written by: Eric Montchaud
Starring: Camille Kerdellant, Ingrid Coetzer
Music: Pierre Bastien
Cinematography: Nadine Buss
Runtime: 6 min
Country: France
Languages: French

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