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The Most Precious of Cargoes

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Once upon a time there was a poor lumberjack and his wife who lived in a deep Polish forest. The poor woman moaned that she had no children. Day and night, trains passed through the woods. One day, as the poor woman was watching a train that she thought was a cargo train, a package was thrown out and fell into the snow....

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Tara Judah Sight & Sound The subject requires far more grace than director Michel Hazanavicius can give it in under an hour, and despite some transitional cross-cutting, the film inevitably feels like two stories inelegantly stuck together. Apr 14, 2025 Full Review Peter Bradshaw Guardian This is a rather sentimental bucolic tale, featuring sweet little cartoon birds and rabbits -- and the real horror of Nazi death camps. Yet the rebuke to the fascists is sincere enough. Rated: 3/5 Apr 1, 2025 Full Review Justin Chang The New Yorker The movie becomes a bathetic wallow in Holocaust imagery, drowned in an Alexandre Desplat score whose every surge turned my heart increasingly to stone. May 30, 2024 Full Review Jesús Jara Godoy Cinencuentro There are no happy endings, only moments that intertwine. We don't know where we stand, and it doesn't matter if we do. Perhaps the only thing that matters is having a good heart and wanting to do things correctly. [Full review in Spanish] May 14, 2025 Full Review Gianmarco Farfán Cinencuentro While it may be beautiful to admire, it's also capable of wiping anyone out due to its chilling intensity. [Full review in Spanish] May 8, 2025 Full Review Pablo O. Scholz Clarín ...at times The Most Precious of Cargoes hovers around clichés, and that is where the magic of animation failed to surpass what a film with flesh and blood actors would have told. But the film has vigor, and yes, also heart. [Full review in Spanish] Rated: 3/4 May 8, 2025 Full Review Read all reviews

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Cecil Berto da S Assisti sem muita expectativa, mas logo de início me deparei com uma animação excepcional e muito bem feita, os detalhes das personagens mesmo parecendo saídas de uma pintura digna de Louvre, conseguem passar sentimentos mesmo sem palavras ditas, e a história , 5min depois do início e prende-nós até ao fim, e que fim…doce e amargo, mas melhor do que esperado em qualquer história que envolva o Holocausto…linda obra de arte, se eu pudesse forçaria todo tipo de audiência a assitir esta animação Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 05/07/25 Full Review Maryna P I loved the movie. The animation and soundtrack are gorgeous. Also, the characters feel alive. A moving and thoughtful story Rated 5 out of 5 stars 04/19/25 Full Review nina n Despite, or even thanks to, a stripped-down storyline, like that of a horror and fairy tale at the same time, we are moved. An excellent way to teach humans of all ages that kindness, love, and strength are accessible to all and are not only characteristics of the soul and spirit, but that they push us to action where these same qualities seem to have deserted time and space. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 04/08/25 Full Review Floris T Can't remember the last time a movie made me emotional in the cinema. This one made me shed a tear. Really liked the animation style, voice work and music was great too. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 03/26/25 Full Review Audience Member NIEMAND GEWINNT ETWAS OHNE WAS ZU VERLIEREN Polen 1943, es herrscht tiefer Winter, ein armes Holzfällerpaar kommt gerade so über die Runden. Täglich betet die Frau zu Gott sie möge ihr ein teures Gut schenken, als sie gehen will hört sie ein Baby schreien. Das Glück scheint endlich mit dem Paar zu sein, auch wenn der Holzfäller nicht begeistert ist ein Baby der Herzlosen bei sich zu haben. Währenddessen, etwas entfernt, wird die Familie des Babys interniert. Das kostbarste aller Güter geht ca. 81 Minuten und ist ab 12 Jahren freigegeben. Wir haben hier das neuste Werk des Oscar Ressigeurs Michal Hazanavicius (The Artist) der uns mit auf eine Reise nimmt die, trotz harter Zeiten, zunächst voller Glück und Zuversicht scheint. Doch je größer das Familienglück zu Beginn eines solchen Werkes ist, desto tiefer der Fall und es werden Bilder kreiert die sich ins Gehirn brennen und einen Blick auf die Herzlosen werfen der wahrlich verstört. Wow, raunte es neben zahlreichen Taschentuch schnäuzern durch den Kinosaal als der Abspann beginnt. Die Story hat eine tolle unaufgeregte Erzählweise und lässt im zweiten Abschnitt nahezu die Worte komplett weg und konzentriert sich rein auf die umwerfende Bildsprache. Ein Werk das gegen den Trend Hollywoods arbeitet, alles aus erzählen zu müssen, schauen wir hier nur in die Gesichter der Leute, sehen die Körper, die Augen und wissen was ausgedrückt werden möchte. Sind die Momente noch so schön und aufmunternd, umso heftiger ist der Schlag in die Magengrube wenn Schüsse fallen, schwarzer Rauch aus hohen Schornsteinen steigt oder vermeintliche Freunde einen bis ins Mark verraten. Am Ende bleibt ein Streifen der über eine fantastische Bildsprache verfügt, nur wenige Worte benötigt und uns Momente schenkt an die man sich erinnern wird. Von mir bekommt der Film 9/10 Punkten. Die Erkenntnis der Holzfällerfrau ist mit die beste die ich je gehört habe, so schreibt man eine Entwicklung eines Charakters. Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 03/07/25 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis Once upon a time there was a poor lumberjack and his wife who lived in a deep Polish forest. The poor woman moaned that she had no children. Day and night, trains passed through the woods. One day, as the poor woman was watching a train that she thought was a cargo train, a package was thrown out and fell into the snow....
Director
Michel Hazanavicius
Producer
Patrick Sobelman, Florence Gastaud, Michel Hazanavicius
Screenwriter
Michel Hazanavicius, Jean-Claude Grumberg
Production Co
Ex Nihilo, Les Compagnons du Cinéma
Genre
Drama, Animation
Original Language
French (France)
Runtime
1h 20m