How An Animator’s Dismembered Fingertip Ended Up In Adam Elliot’s ‘Memoir Of A Snail’


Adam Elliot’s new stop-motion drama Memoir of a Snail opens today in limited release in Los Angeles (AMC Century City, AMC Burbank) and New York City (AMC Lincoln Square, IFC Center, Brooklyn Alamo Drafthouse), ahead of an expanded release by IFC Films in November.

The film debuted at Annecy, where it won the top Cristal for feature, and has since gone on to win the top prize at the BFI London Film Festival and the audience award and special jury prize at Animation is Film.

Elliot’s new film tells the story of Grace Pudel, a lonely misfit with an affinity for collecting ornamental snails, who is separated from her twin brother Gilbert at a young age, which causes her to fall into a spiral of anxiety and angst. Her life changes after she meets an elderly eccentric woman named Pinky, who is full of grit and lust for life.



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