GARDEN PARTY - FLORIAN BABIKIAN ET AL (2017)

Written and directed by a group of French animation students, Garden Party was nominated for an Oscar in 2018. It starts off like it might be a child-friendly, Pixar-like story about a frog romance, but a darkness lurks behind the film and it turns out to be not at all child-friendly in the end. A male frog is pursuing a female frog, while another frog is chasing a butterfly, and yet another is gobbling down any and all human food it sees. But their habitat is the deserted mansion of a crime boss and there has clearly been some kind of robbery. There is, in truth, not a great deal of story to the film but the animation is admittedly quite brilliant. If you like Garden Party by Florian Babikian, Vincent Bayoux, Victor Caire, Théophile Dufresne, Gabriel Grapperon and Lucas Navarro be sure to rate it and share it.