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  • 2012
  • Not Rated
  • The Criterion Channel
  • 2 h 16 m
  • 2012
  • Not Rated
  • The Criterion Channel
  • 2 h 16 m
Consuming Spirits

Summary Consuming Spirits 16mm to HD, is an Independent feature animation, chronicling the lives of three characters who live in a rust belt town called Magguson, and work at its local newspaper The Daily Suggester. They are: Gentian Violet 42: Victor Blue 38: and Earl gray 64: first appear to be acquaintances. But as the film unfolds, we find t...

  • 2012
  • Not Rated
  • The Criterion Channel
  • 2 h 16 m
  • 2012
  • Not Rated
  • The Criterion Channel
  • 2 h 16 m

Consuming Spirits

Metascore Universal Acclaim Based on 12 Critic Reviews
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Summary Consuming Spirits 16mm to HD, is an Independent feature animation, chronicling the lives of three characters who live in a rust belt town called Magguson, and work at its local newspaper The Daily Suggester. They are: Gentian Violet 42: Victor Blue 38: and Earl gray 64: first appear to be acquaintances. But as the film unfolds, we find t...

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Universal Acclaim Based on 12 Critic Reviews
81
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17% Mixed
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Universal Acclaim Based on 12 Critic Reviews
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83% Positive
10 Reviews
17% Mixed
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0% Negative
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100
Jan 25, 2013
Dense like a detailed graphic novel in the Chris Ware or R. Crumb vein, but a real movie in every way, Consuming Spirits is a strange and wormy accomplishment, the sort of personal epic only the most obsessive of cinematic madmen undertake, let alone complete.
By Michael Phillips FULL REVIEW
100
Dec 10, 2012
Not only a monstrous visual achievement, but one of the most uniquely humanistic animated features of all time.
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90
Dec 13, 2012
In a story built on ugly secrets and lifetimes of terrible events, small moments of beauty and redemption sneak through - proving that sometimes utilizing those bitter remnants of charred memories can prove more fruitful than Earl Gray thought.
By Ian Buckwalter FULL REVIEW
75
Jan 24, 2013
A slice-of-life film like you have not seen. It is the story of people in a small ordinary town, knowing nothing but their ordinary affairs, revealing their sins and crimes with an ordinary negligence.
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75
Dec 13, 2012
Not everyone will be in tune with the movie's sick sense of humor, although it's sometimes hilarious.
By Farran Smith Nehme FULL REVIEW
70
Dec 12, 2012
This labor of love from do-it-all animator Chris Sullivan has the same rough-edged, cantankerous charms as the characters that populate it. Narrative alone is too uneven to captivate fully for the picture's two-hour-plus duration, though there's so much to see that "Spirits" should nonetheless prove a draw for adult audiences.
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50
Dec 11, 2012
Consuming Spirits is overlong. A dystopian T.S. Eliot once said, "Humankind cannot bear too much reality," maybe even in a cartoon.
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Release Date Dec 12, 2012
Duration 2 h 16 m
Rating Not Rated
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Awards

Chicago International Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
ANIMA - Córdoba International Animation Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Luxembourg City Film Festival
• 1 Nomination

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