Charlotte

Name: Charlotte
Genre: Animation
Released: April 22, 2022
Duration: 92 min
Rating: 58
Cast: Brenda Blethyn, Eddie Marsan, Helen McCrory, Henry Czerny, Jim Broadbent

2022

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Diaphana Films | Release Date: April 22, 2022 | Not Rated

Starring: Brenda Blethyn, Eddie Marsan, Helen McCrory, Henry Czerny, Jim Broadbent, Keira Knightley, Marion Cotillard, Mark Strong, Sam Claflin, Sophie Okonedo

Summary: Charlotte is an animated drama that tells the true story of Charlotte Salomon, a young German-Jewish painter who comes of age in Berlin on the eve of the Second World War. Fiercely imaginative and deeply gifted, she dreams of becoming an artist. Her first love applauds her talent, which emboldens her resolve. But the world around her isCharlotte is an animated drama that tells the true story of Charlotte Salomon, a young German-Jewish painter who comes of age in Berlin on the eve of the Second World War. Fiercely imaginative and deeply gifted, she dreams of becoming an artist. Her first love applauds her talent, which emboldens her resolve. But the world around her is changing quickly and dangerously, limiting her options and derailing her dream. When anti-Semitic policies inspire violent mobs, she leaves Berlin for the safety of the South of France. There she begins to paint again, and finds new love. But her work is interrupted, this time by a family tragedy that reveals an even darker secret. Believing that only the extraordinary will save her, she embarks on the monumental adventure of painting her life story.… Expand

Director: Éric Warin and Tahir Rana

Genre(s): Animation

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 92 min

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Sheri Linden

Oct 16, 2021

The film is steeped in beauty at least as much as it is in sorrow, the dance of Mediterranean light — Salomon would spend a good portion of her final fears in the South of France — a vibrant counterpoint to the creeping shadow of hatred and violence. Read full review

Kate Taylor

Sep 15, 2021

Sometimes, the animators find an expressive style to match difficult content – a suicide, a mercy killing and several sex scenes – and sometimes they just make the images of Salomon and the refugee with whom she falls in love seem leaden in comparison to the artist’s sprightly line. Read full review

Richard Whittaker

May 11, 2022

What Rana and Warin have also created is a quiet warning. As a new tide of fascism and monomaniacal cultural oppression looms on the horizon, they make Salomon’s story a tragic reminder that fleeing a nightmare may mean more than just keeping it in your rearview mirror. Read full review

Dennis Harvey

Apr 21, 2022

What might have seemed a familiar if sad drama in live-action form benefits from this relative novelty of presentation, which lends a certain universality, as well as heightened viewer access, to Salomon’s story. But the rather pedestrian animation here also makes Charlotte a bit of a disappointment. Read full review

The Playlist Carlos Aguilar

Sep 24, 2021

As much as Charlotte Salomon’s life is inherently worthy of admiration, and that it’s a valid creative choice on the directors’ part to make a tonally modest and straightforward depiction of the events, one can’t help but yearn for a version where her oeuvre and its stylized interpretation of her intimated universe had been a more deeply intertwined with how her prolific and unimaginably tragic story was told. Read full review

Lisa Kennedy

Apr 21, 2022

In the end, Charlotte is bereft of the spirit of the artist who made the uncanny “Life? or Theatre?” What an even better tribute the movie would have been had it also taken heated energy from Salomon’s art. Read full review

IndieWire Christian Blauvelt

Sep 18, 2021

Any expectation that Salomon’s profound story might be depicted in grown-up, searching animation that’s still all too rare, is quickly dashed. Instead of being brought to a place of soulful contemplation, Charlotte merely becomes cinematic Ambien. What a tragedy. Read full review

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