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There is a point where the guardian tells her a story of his own in return. She begins to tell him stories, and we watch these stories play out, with all their brutality and violence and magic and wonder they are stories about the past, her and her people’s stories, and they cover vast spans of time and do not take the sort of shape you might expect. It begins with a starscape, and then drops to a planet’s surface where a nearly-nude woman (voiced by Lucy Lawless) in a garland of odd blue flowers struggles up a mountainside to reach an armoured figure (Richard E. It’s more serious than Heavy Metal in many ways, but the violence and cosmic scope is if anything even greater. The Spine of Night, written and directed by the team of Morgan Galen King and Philip Gelatt, is billed as a feature-length animated sword-and-sorcery film for adults in the vein of the Heavy Metal movie.
THE SPINE OF NIGHT MOVIE
The feature film it was bundled with was the movie I’d been most eagerly looking forward to at Fantasia, and it did not disappoint.
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The castle in which the beautiful maiden dwells with her tyrannical father is detailed and charming, the winemaker’s town is intricate and gothic, the characters are cartoony and evocative. The film recalls classic Disney movies in its designs, but is darker and naratively much richer. The story’s a nice rich tale of unwanted consequences, but what makes it work are the 2D visuals.
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But things take a turn when Death (Virginie Meisterhans) is drawn to the perfection of the winemaker’s creation. It’s a folkloric tale about a winemaker (voiced by Kacey Mottet Klein) in a Renaissancelike land who tries to win the heart of a noble young lady (Marie-Claire Dubois) by crafting the best wine in the world. “Death and the Winemaker” (“Le Vigneron et la Mort”) is a 19-minute French-language animated film from Switzerland written and directed by Victor Jaquier.