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L'échine

2009 11 min
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Le réalisateur oscarisé Chris Landreth est de retour avec une touchante histoire de rédemption qui nous entraîne au cœur de la relation entre un homme et une femme emprisonnés dans un tourbillon de destruction mutuelle après 26 ans de mariage. Avec The Spine, Landreth poursuit sa quête d’une esthétique visuelle étrange, magnifique et hautement originale, utilisant l’imagerie numérique pour créer des personnages dont l’apparence devient la métaphore de leur état d’âme.

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Le réalisateur oscarisé Chris Landreth est de retour avec une touchante histoire de rédemption qui nous entraîne au cœur de la relation entre un homme et une femme emprisonnés dans un tourbillon de destruction mutuelle après 26 ans de mariage. Avec The Spine, Landreth poursuit sa quête d’une esthétique visuelle étrange, magnifique et hautement originale, utilisant l’imagerie numérique pour créer des personnages dont l’apparence devient la métaphore de leur état d’âme.

Families Psychology and Psychiatry All subjects
  • script
    Chris Landreth
  • direction
    Chris Landreth
  • producer
    Steven Hoban
    Marcy Page
    Lisa Bechard
    John Mariella
  • None
    Mark Smith
    Alexandra Gunter
    Sean Craig
  • executive producer
    Robert Munroe
    David Verrall
  • voice
    Gordon Pinsent
    Alberta Watson
    Patrice Goodman
    Robert McCarrol
  • original music
    Kirk Elliott
  • chief animator
    Sean Craig
  • editing
    Yonah Lewis
    Jeremy Montgomery

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Ages 15 to 17
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Arts Education - Visual Arts Family Studies/Home Economics - Relationships History and Citizenship Education - Culture and Currents of Thought (1500-present)
Students studying relationships can discuss and analyze the issues that exist between the film's characters. Potential topics to be explored include self-esteem and co-dependence. This film also touches on emotional abuse, and while physical scars are often visible, in this film the emotional scars manifest themselves in the physical appearance of the characters. Students of film and animation can discuss the film's unique visual style and symbolism.
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