In the tradition of Jan Svankmajer and The Brothers Quay, filmmaker Christiane Cegavske offers an adult oriented, stop motion fairy tale thirteen years in the making. Told strictly through imagery and... read more 
DVD Release Date: November 7, 2006
Stats: 86 reviews
A group of white mice (who drink blood tea) steal a doll belonging to a clan of rodents in this dialogue-free stop-motion feature. Beautiful and imaginative, with hallucinogenic berries, a frog sorcerer, and a near-perfect mix of surrealism and fairy tale darkness. People say i... read more
Technically and visually a BRILLIANT little film. If you know anything about the amount of work that goes into stop motion work, you can't help but be impressed. Especially with all of the little details.
The story is interesting and bizarre in a creepy/cool sort of way, but... read more
It's the mice vs. the fuzzy beaked things in a dispute over a "beautiful" doll. There are wagons pulled by turtles, hallucinogenic berries, flesh eating plants, frogs dressed like monks, and a sundry assortment of other oddities. Christiane Cegavske spent years putting this fan... read more
13 years in the making, director Christiane Cegavske worked to bring the stop-motion animated film to completion and is painstakingly detailed. It seems a great part of my movie-watching-time has been spent on sequels, remakes, re-adaptations, and narratives that rehash the same... read more
Marvelous stop motion animated film. Besides having the cutest upper crust mouse fight ever filmed, the rest of the movie is filled with memorable characters, witty inventions, and a complete surrealist landscape. The character design is fantastic, the puppets manage to convey so... read more
A cute and imaginative parable of human nature, with surrealist and expressionist elements. One of the better films in its class of peres such as 'Alice' and 'The Collected Shorts of Jan Svankmajer.'
Thirteen years in the making, Christiane Cegavskes stop-motion fairy tale is at once wondrously obsolete and perfectly au courant.
As lovingly crafted as it is unsettlingly sour-sweet. Full Review
As with Henry Darger, coherence is beside the point; one just waits for the next baffling image. Full Review
...utterly idiosyncratic, in the best sense of the word. ... Very trippy and sometimes strangely disturbing, this is a quintessential midnight movie.
So achingly lovely, so immersive in a genuine childhood world, that it's hard to image a viewer walking away unmoved. Full Review
A stunning achievement that will appeal to anyone in search of a bold and captivating movie. Full Review
Cegavske imbues her scrappy little creatures with disturbingly complex personalities. Full Review
Cegavske's film is a meld of surreal imagery, and a morbid somewhat horrific story that art lovers will enjoy. Horror fans need apply. Full Review
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