Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #28631 in DVD
• Released on: 2005-04-24
• Rating: G (General Audience)
• Formats: Dolby, NTSC
• Original language: English, French
• Running time: 48 minutes

Customer Reviews

poorly authored DVD
I was thrilled when this DVD came in the mail, but what a huge disappointment it was when I put it into the player! It:
-Has no subtitles at all, not even in English
-Is not widescreen

To make things worse, I've found that some people don't like this kind of animation. I like it, but I had to turn it off because no one else in the room liked it.

The closest way from the heart of an artist to the masterwork
"The Old Man and the Sea" (1999) directed by Aleksandr Petrov is a 20 minutes long animation based on Ernest Hemingway's 1952 novella of the same name. Petrov's film was awarded Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film in 2000. More than two years of painting on glass sheets, using brushes but mostly his own fingers, resulted in over 29,000 paintings that enabled Petrov to produce this absolutely awesome, one of the kind feast of colors, images, and emotions that celebrate the famous work of literature and its creator. I have watched it perhaps ten times during the last weekend. I am still overwhelmed by its beauty and depth, and the admiration for what human imagination, creativity, and talent are capable of producing. The extremely rare technique made the film both incredibly realistic and magically dream-like. The director himself gave us the key to understanding his work when he explained that painting with his fingers instead of brushes, "is the closest way from the heart to the cartoon". He put his own heart in every scene of the film, and that's probably why every image is alive, breathing, and shining.