Alma (2009)Alma, a little girl, skips through the snow covered streets of a small town. Her attention is caught by a strange doll in an antique toy shop window. Fascinated, Alma decides to enter. Director:Rodrigo BlaasWriter:Rodrigo Blaas |
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Alma, a little girl, skips through the snow covered streets of a small town. Her attention is caught by a strange doll in an antique toy shop window. Fascinated, Alma decides to enter.
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Alma starts as a small child named Alma plays in the narrow snow covered streets of a small town & notices a doll that looks almost exactly like her in a shop window, it has the same clothes, the same hair & exactly the same features. Intrigued Alma decides to enter the shop & take a closer look, inside the shop is empty but she sees the doll on a shelf & approaches it...
This American & Spanish co-production was written & directed by Rodrigo Blaas & is a short little fantasy CGI computer animated fantasy that has a good central premise even if it's all rather ambiguous & the twist ending didn't quite grab my attention as much as it might have, to be honest it's fairly predictable but at only five minutes & thirty seconds long you won't exactly have to cancel all your plans for the evening if you want to see it, will you? There is no dialogue at all & nothing that happens has any sort of explanation but it's watchable enough in a cute & almost creepy sort of way. Alma is the sort of thing that will depend on ones own personal taste, whether you need everything explained or whether you need lots of action or or whether you can't take 'cartoons' seriously or whether you can just sit down & watch something that is pure fantasy & just go with it.
The CGI computer animation is great, maybe not quite up to Pixar levels & the Toy Story films but certainly nothing to be embarrassed about. The central character is cute enough yet realistic enough at the same time, the dolls inside the mysterious shop also have faint air of creepiness about them even though they don't particularly do anything significant. There is no violence, no gore & very little happens but it has a certain charm about it.
Alma is a neat little five & a half minute animation with a fantasy based story that I liked well enough, there's not much more to say as there's not much more to it. Impressive animation, too.