Le Mans 1955 (2018)
Very cinematic
29 August 2020
I came to this thinking that it was somehow connected to the film Le Mans 66 (in the US as Ford v Ferrari) but it is not. Instead it is the story of a tragic accident that occurred during the 1955 Le mans 24 hour race.

In telling the story the film is impressively cinematic. It is an animation but it has great shot selection and 'cinematography', which combines with a strong colour palette and sense of the drama and tragedy. This produces the foundation on which the fire plays out. The delivery of the moral drama is perhaps a bit rushed, but this sort of comes with the territory in a short film, and it compensates for it by some dramatic moments, and solid voice work. The scale of the animation is impressive; technically it shows some limits in its movement, but mostly it is impressively designed and delivered - while the story means you are not focused on the elements of the film so much as you are on the whole.
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