A Little Phantasy on a 19th-century Painting
Filmmaker Norman McLaren animates Arnold Boecklin's painting "Isle of the Dead" in this program. Eerie shapes flicker to life, hover briefly over the void from which they came, and sink slowly into imperturbable mystery. (movierevie.ws)
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A Little Phantasy on a 19th-century Painting

1946
Animation
Short Film
4m
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Avg Percentile 57.74% from 21 total ratings

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Rated 31 Oct 2010
80
68th
Modest ambitions achieved, with little fuss. This sort of short animation is much nicer than the more famous stuff with Bugs Bunny, Mickey Mouse, et al. More entertaining, too
Rated 05 Mar 2009
82
73rd
Nice to see McLaren branching out into something a little different. Fascinating study of metamorphosis.
Rated 30 Oct 2015
3
30th
not a very interesting mclaren animation.

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