"Au bout du monde" or "At the Ends of the Earth" is a French 8-minute animated short film from 1999, so this one will have its 20th anniversary soon. This was written and directed by Konstantin Bronzit a pretty long time before his Oscar nominations. Like most of his other works, the animation style is simple enough that you would think it is a much older work. But unlike some of his other works, the story here did not impress me at all and the characters weren't interesting at all. It's about a house on top of a mountain that is so pointy on the edge that it keeps drifting left or right depending on the movement inside the house, but also outside against the house. The best example for the latter is the huge cow at the very end. Well, like I said there is no component in here that really managed to impress me at all, neither looks-wise nor story-wise. One of Bronzit's weaker efforts and I am baffled by the great deal of awards attention it got. Maybe one reason is the complete lack of spoken language, no French in here, no Russian either, so if you want to check it out, then you won't need subtitles regardless of what languages you (don't) speak. My suggestion is to skip it though.
Review of At the Ends of the Earth
