After " French Roast "," Granny O'Grimm's Sleeping Beauty "and" The Lady and The Reaper , "this is the fourth of five nominees for the Oscar for Best Animated Short Film. It's called "Logorama" is the second French film nominated in this category, and the strangest of five.
"Logorama" is in its technical design, brilliant. Everything in the film is composed of more than 2500 logos and mascots of well-known brands worldwide. Characters, buildings, vehicles, flora and fauna are removed from the collective imagination by creating a city (and even a world and a universe) appealing and mesmerizing.
The problem is that the level of story, anything goes. "Logorama" is nothing more than a sequence of events, with a dizzying pace, but without a defined direction, unless the total chaos. The strangeness that is when we have just seen the film is such that I can not do here a summary of the story. But fortunately, my task is made easier with the poster up there. Everything is written there is what happens in the movie, neither more nor less. Breakneck car chases, an intense hostage crisis, angry wild animals in the city, and more that will put the edge of the seat, this is "Logorama."
Written and directed by François Alaux, Herve de Crecy, Ludovic Houplain, studios French H5 is a demonstration of delusional imagination and technique, placed at the service of a better story, the film would give a pitcher. The Oscar nomination was a surprise even to them, and the outcome is really unpredictable. It all depends on what you want the Academy award in this category: If the exemplary way of telling a story or through technical expertise, entertaining the audience.
One last note for the voices that serve two masters at the cafe Pringles: No less than David Fincher and Andrew Kevin Walker, screenwriter and director of "Se7en - Seven Deadly Sins"). Here is, for your consideration ...
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