Film review: Coraline

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Title: Coraline
Year: 2009
Directed by: Henry Selick
Seen in: August 2009
Rating: ★★★★★

 

My thoughts: Coraline is incredibly well made! You can just tell there was so much effort in the animation and in every little detail, and the result is a film which is captivating, cute, visually stimulating but also beautifully dark and gripping. It was a long time since a film of this type had involved me so much, and the reason is that the characters are amazing, funny but also a little disturbing, and until the end you just can't quite understand what it is that is wrong. The film has great images, a wonderful atmosphere, an original plot and fantastic characters, and is definitely very unique in its genre :)