Movie

Little Otik

2001 · 131 min

A queasy, deadpan fairy tale that crawls under your skin with its stop-motion hunger and domestic dread.

Tagline: From the creator of "Alice" and "Faust" comes a most unusual baby…
Overview: When a childless couple learn that they cannot have children, it causes great distress. To ease his wife's pain, the man finds a piece of root in the backyard and chops it and varnishes it into the shape of a child. However the woman takes the root as her baby and starts to pretend that it is real.
How it feels: Dark, absurd, eerie and satirical. Slow-burning and demanding.
About: Parenthood, obsession, grief, family
Content: Strong violence. Mild gore, sexual content and language.
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Tone: darkstrength 3 of 3
absurdstrength 3 of 3
eeriestrength 2 of 3
satiricalstrength 2 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: parenthood
obsession
grief
family
madness
Places: home
big city
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: nonlinear
unreliable narrator
Content intensity: Gore mild
Language mild
Violence strong
Sex mild