Claude Barras
My Life as a Courgette
7.8After losing his mother, a young boy is sent to a foster home with other orphans his age where he begins to learn the meaning of trust and true love.
- Director: Claude Barras
- Main Cast: Gaspard Schlatter, Sixtine Murat, Paulin Jaccoud
- Soundtrack: Sophie Hunger
- Cinematography: David Toutevoix
- Screenplay: Céline Sciamma
Original title in France is Ma vie de Courgette.
Cinema Premiere: June 2, 2017
Reviews
4 reviews of My Life as a Courgette (2016)
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10 / 10
Rarely have I seen a film as beautifully animated as the Swiss Oscar submission "My Life as a Courgette", about social inheritance and life in orphanages. - Jon Asp
Swedish: svd.se »
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8 / 10
"My Life as a Courgette" is one of the strongest children's films of the year that manages to be both beautiful, gripping, thoughtful and entertaining at the same time. - Andreas Samuelson
Swedish: moviezine.se »
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8 / 10
"My Life as a Courgette" touches on heavy and difficult matters - but does so without scaring, and entirely from a child's perspective. - Emma Gray Munthe
Swedish: aftonbladet.se »
Box Office
My Life as a Courgette has earned a total of 5 873 157 dollars from cinemas across the world (the global box office).
1. Göteborgs-Posten
The turning points are many, the portraits of the children nuanced and heartbreaking, and the story is filled with both darkness and hope. Here there is love and hate and everything in between. - Maria Domellöf-Wik
Swedish: gp.se »