After an award-winning premiere at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival earlier this year, IFC Films has released a trailer for writer-director Adam Elliot’s acclaimed stop-motion comedy-drama Memoir of a Snail.
Featuring the voice talents of Sarah Snook, Eric Bana, Kodi Smit-McPhee, and Jacki Weaver, the film tells the bitterweet story of the book-loving, snail-collecting misfit Grace Pudel. Watch the trailer below…
Grace Pudel is a lonely misfit with an affinity for collecting ornamental snails and an intense love for books. At a young age, when Grace is separated from her fire-breathing twin brother Gilbert, she falls into a spiral of anxiety and angst. Despite a continued series of hardships, inspiration and hope emerge when she strikes up an enduring friendship with an elderly eccentric woman named Pinky, who is full of grit and lust for life. From Academy Award-winning® animation writer and director Adam Elliot, Memoir of a Snail is a poignant, heartfelt, hilarious chronicle of the life of an outsider finding her confidence and silver linings amongst the clutter of everyday life.
Memoir of a Snail arrives in cinemas on October 25th.
