Story Line
Forcibly separated from her twin brother when they are orphaned, a melancholic misfit learns how to find confidence within herself amid the clutter of misfortunes and everyday life.
“Life can only be understood backwards, but we have to live it forwards.”
Top Cast
Sarah Snook
Grace (voice)
Kodi Smit-McPhee
Gilbert (voice)
Jacki Weaver
Pinky (voice)
Magda Szubanski
Ruth Appleby (voice)
Dominique Pinon
Percy Pudel (voice)
Tony Armstrong
Ken (voice)
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Rating
8.0/ 10
Release Date
2024-10-17
Runtime
1h 34m
Genres
AnimationDramaComedy
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User Reviews (4)
good.film
No rating•10/16/2024
It feels great to laugh straight after you’ve just welled up.
The characters in Memoir of a Snail, the new animated tale from Academy Award winner Adam Elliot, feel authentically real to us - and even though Elliot includes jokes, he doesn’t joke...
Chris Sawin
9/10
•11/17/2024Australian animator and filmmaker Adam Elliot’s last full-length feature film was Mary and Max (2009). Memoir of a Snail is narrated and told from the point of view of Grace Pudel (Sarah Snook). Grace details her life story that finds humor and senti...
CinemaSerf
7/10
•2/19/2025When an elderly lady gives out her last breath, and yells something about potatoes, we realise that “Grace” is now on her own. She’s a middle aged woman wearing a knitted hat with two big eyes poking from stalks on the top. She’s what you might call ...
Louisa Moore - Screen Zealots
No rating•4/4/2025
It’s been a long time since I’ve been moved by a piece of cinema as much as I was with “Memoir of a Snail,” a dark, profound, and highly personal stop-motion film from writer / director Adam Elliot . This work of animation confirms the power of the m...