{"id":6960,"date":"2020-06-12T18:18:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-12T15:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/maronas-fantastic-tale-movie-review\/"},"modified":"2020-06-12T18:18:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-12T15:18:00","slug":"maronas-fantastic-tale-movie-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/maronas-fantastic-tale-movie-review\/","title":{"rendered":"#Marona&#8217;s Fantastic Tale Movie Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a40f94dad4f6\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a40f94dad4f6\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-5' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-5'><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-5' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-5'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/maronas-fantastic-tale-movie-review\/#Matt_Zoller_Seitz\" >Matt Zoller Seitz<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/maronas-fantastic-tale-movie-review\/#Maronas_Fantastic_Tale_2020\" >Marona&#8217;s Fantastic Tale (2020)<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>#Marona&#8217;s Fantastic Tale<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.rogerebert.com\/uploads\/review\/primary_image\/reviews\/maronas-fantastic-tale-movie-review-2020\/maronas-fantastic-tale-movie-review-2020.jpg\"><\/img><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<section>\n<section>The title\u00a0&#8220;Marona&#8217;s Fantastic Tale&#8221; promises a fantasy or fable, packed with dream visions, eccentric characters and\u00a0world-changing events.\u00a0But while this animated film from director Anna Damian\u00a0delivers all that and more, nothing that h<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ens in it would seem extraordinary if you were describing it to a friend. It&#8217;s about the chaotic life of a pet\u2014a mixed breed dog who calls herself a &#8220;mutt&#8221;\u2014and there isn&#8217;t a single thing in it that couldn&#8217;t happen.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But because Damian and her collaborators tell this story subjectively, through first-person narration and images that shift and warp and pulse according to the dog&#8217;s perceptions, you arrive at the very\u00a0end of &#8220;Marona&#8217;s Fantastic Tale&#8221;\u00a0realizing that you haven&#8217;t just been taken on a journey, but made to appreciate it in ways you wouldn&#8217;t have if it were told conventionally. This movie\u00a0appreciates the difficulties animals must have navigating a world dominated by humans. And it\u00a0asks viewers to appreciate what&#8217;s important to a dog, and how mammals with short life spans might perceive\u00a0time, relationships, and memory.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<section>\n<section>\n<p>None of this stuff\u00a0is on the minds of most other animated <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">movies<\/a> about pets, except in a lighthearted and superficial way, because the instant a storyteller takes\u00a0a dog&#8217;s life as seriously as a human&#8217;s, and thinks about them as independent beings rather than an extension of their owners (or companions),\u00a0it ceases to be escapism and becomes a psychological\u00a0drama, which is what &#8220;Marona&#8217;s Fantastic Tale&#8221; really is (though it&#8217;s very funny and often exciting, too).\u00a0Films about dogs, cats and other household animals tend to\u00a0labor to convince us their main characters are just people in animal costumes\u2014often wisecracking ones with celebrity voices.\u00a0Sometimes they give them office jobs and gendered clothes and human responsibilities, and have them make jokes about pop stars and presidents and mortgages and school admissions, because that&#8217;s the joke, ha ha.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s important to know before queuing up this film for a birthday party\u00a0that even though &#8220;Marona&#8217;s Fantastic Tale&#8221; is an animated picture about a lovable\u00a0dog, and is designed and directed with dazzling\u00a0showmanship and anchored in compassion, it&#8217;s not a film\u00a0you can show to small children without first gauging whether they&#8217;re patient, open-minded and mature enough to make sense of it.\u00a0Marona is a bit like the doggie cousin of a character from an early Terrence Malick movie like &#8220;Badlands&#8221;\u00a0or &#8220;Days of Heaven,&#8221; striving through her narration to make sense of a world she can&#8217;t fully understand, and gradually piecing together a philosophy of life despite the gaps in her perception and the limits of her ability to perceive the totality of what&#8217;s happening around her.\u00a0&#8220;Dogs can smell when something bad is brewing, when our human has a heavy con<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/sciencee\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"5\" title=\"Science\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">science<\/a>,&#8221; she confides in us, when one of her owners is clearly contemplating handing her off to someone else.<\/p>\n<p>And\u2014this is important, and\u00a0not a spoiler, as Damian establishes this in the very first scene\u2014the entire story is a deathbed flashback, recounted at the moment that Marona dies after being hit by a car. This is\u00a0something that we all know happens to dogs all the time, but most animated films don&#8217;t dare show it, out of fear that it would traumatize children and make their parents demand a refund and post angry reviews on Amazon. It&#8217;s far more likely that a film will tantalize us with the possibility that an animal will die on a road and then reveal at the last minute that it lived, and maybe show it commiserating with its animal pals while limping along on an adorable little crutch.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<section>\n<section>\n<p>Not this movie, though.\u00a0Marona&#8217;s not a gory or even particuarly blunt demise. In fact, the filmmakers go\u00a0out of their way to cushion the blow, by telling us right away that this is how Marona dies, then backing up to tell us her life story, including he early experiences with her mother, father, and eight siblings, her various owners, only one of whom is really a dog person, unfortunately, and some of whom are petty, neglectful, and mean. Her first owner is an acrobat who is drawn as an impossibly long, slender being defined by wavy, elastic lines. Her second owner is a big, deep-voiced delivery truck driver who loves her but is more enamored with and loyal to his girlfriend, a petty, vain woman who thinks of Marona primarily as a lifestyle accessory and is jealous of the attention her boyfriend bestows on his pet.\u00a0And there&#8217;s the deliveryman&#8217;s elderly mother, who is sweet during the daytime but turns bitter and mean at night. Finally there&#8217;s a young girl who finds her in a park, takes her home to her mother and grandfather, and raises her until her death.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>None of these human characters, including the &#8220;good&#8221; ones, are presented as entirely noble or selfless individuals, because their flaws are what make them, well, human. The closest thing to a purely good person is the girl&#8217;s mother, a harried single mom distracted by financial troubles and the responsibility of caring for her elderly and disabled father; she is literally overflowing with love, her\u00a0long, red seeming to extend beyond her feet and wrap around her daughter like a superhero&#8217;s cape.\u00a0Part of the point here\u00a0is to encourage us to look at ourselves as the caretakers of pets, or the loved ones of humans who are caretakers of pets, then ask whether we set the kind of example that we ought to, or if we could try a bit harder, pay a bit more attention, think about something other than ourselves.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It all feels rather like a self-delivered eulogy or obituary by a person who\u00a0lived a life that a historian or <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a> outlet would not consider significant enough to acknowledge, but that meant a great deal to her and to the people she was close to. The movie\u00a0falls within the cinematic tradition of stories narrated by people who have just died and are trying to make sense of their experience as their bodies transform from matter to energy.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The film is also demanding in terms of its\u00a0style, tone, and choice of what to emphasize. This\u00a0is\u00a0not an American studio-type of production, with three-dimensional-looking, realistically shaded animation, visual grammar that mimics live action Hollywood blockbusters, a soundtrack of brash, Broadway-ready original songs or needle-drop pop tunes, and dialogue packed with references and slang that might&#8217;ve seemed\u00a0up-to-the-minute when the project was green-lit five years earlier. &#8220;Marona&#8217;s Fantastic Tale&#8221;\u00a0unfolds according to its own logic and intuition, and demands a great deal\u00a0of viewers (adults as well as kids), starting with a very basic request that viewers get their minds around the fact that life is finite and ends in death, and you don&#8217;t get to choose the time, place, and circumstances.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<section>\n<section>\n<p>If you read that last sentence and thought, &#8220;That sounds French,&#8221; well, yes, absolutely: this is a French-Romanian coproduction, and while it might seem like overdoing it to call the film existential, it absolutely fits. This is a movie about existence, about the ordinary yet often wrenching truth of what it means to live, age, and die, leaving a legacy of love and regret, if not necessarily children or achievements. When you hear the phrase &#8220;a dog&#8217;s life&#8221;\u00a0it is often dismissive or smug, as in, &#8220;I wouldn&#8217;t wish that kind of life on a dog.&#8221; What does that say about the value that humanity actually places on dogs, though? A dog&#8217;s life and a human&#8217;s are equally valuable to the creature who&#8217;s living it. The dog is just shorter and doesn&#8217;t live as long, and can&#8217;t operate a doorknob.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Finally,&#8221; Marona says, snuggling into the home of caretakers\u00a0who actually take\u00a0care of her, &#8220;humans who understand what it means to be a canine.&#8221; Finally, too, a cartoon that appreciates dogs as dogs, and treats one\u00a0dog&#8217;s life with the gravity and compassion we&#8217;d want expressed at a memorial service for a human of no importance who meant everything.<\/p>\n<p><em>Available in virtual cinemas today, 6\/12.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<section>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<figure>\n<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Matt Zoller Seitz\" src=\"https:\/\/static.rogerebert.com\/uploads\/user\/primary_image\/matt-zoller-seitz\/featured_MZS_portraits-10.jpg\" title=\"Matt Zoller Seitz\"><\/img><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div><figcaption>\n<h5><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Matt_Zoller_Seitz\"><\/span>Matt Zoller Seitz<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h5>\n<p>Matt Zoller Seitz is the Editor at Large\u00a0of RogerEbert.com, TV critic for New York Magazine and Vulture.com, and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in criticism.<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<section>\n<section> <\/section>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Marona's Fantastic Tale movie poster\" itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\" src=\"https:\/\/static.rogerebert.com\/uploads\/movie\/movie_poster\/maronas-fantastic-tale-2020\/large_marona-poster.jpg\" title=\"Marona's Fantastic Tale movie poster\"><\/img><\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Maronas_Fantastic_Tale_2020\"><\/span> Marona&#8217;s Fantastic Tale (2020) <span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p> <meta content=\"NR\" itemprop=\"contentRating\"><\/meta> Rated NR  <\/p>\n<p> 90 minutes <meta content=\"PT90M\" itemprop=\"duration\"><\/meta><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<section>\n<section>\n<div>\n<div>\n<article target=\"_blank\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.rogerebert.com\/uploads\/blog_post\/primary_image\/streaming\/lazy-crossing-swords-cant-hit-its-targets\/thumb_crossing_swords_s01_e09_primary_asset_02032020_v2-00_03_55_04-still003-1.jpg\"><\/img><\/p>\n<p> about 2 hours ago <\/p>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<article target=\"_blank\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.rogerebert.com\/uploads\/blog_post\/primary_image\/streaming\/home-entertainment-guide-june-11-2020\/thumb_Unmarried_still.jpeg\"><\/img><\/p>\n<p> 1 day ago <\/p>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<article target=\"_blank\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.rogerebert.com\/uploads\/blog_post\/primary_image\/interviews\/paving-the-way-shola-lynch-on-chisholm-72-unbought-and-unbossed\/thumb_Shola_Lynch_Interview.JPG\"><\/img><\/p>\n<p> 1 day ago <\/p>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<article target=\"_blank\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.rogerebert.com\/uploads\/blog_post\/primary_image\/interviews\/loren-bouchard-on-central-park-appletv\/thumb_Central_Park_Photo_010204.jpg\"><\/img><\/p>\n<p> 3 days ago <\/p>\n<\/article>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/section>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rogerebert.com\/reviews\/maronas-fantastic-tale-movie-review-2020\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Source<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>If you want to read more Like this articles, you can visit our <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/social-media\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Social Media category.<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>if you want to watch Movies or Tv Shows go to <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/dizi.buradabiliyorum.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dizi.BuradaBiliyorum.Com<\/a> <\/span> for forums sites go to <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/forum.buradabiliyorum.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Forum.BuradaBiliyorum.Com<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;#Marona&#8217;s Fantastic Tale&#8221; The title\u00a0&#8220;Marona&#8217;s Fantastic Tale&#8221; promises a fantasy or fable, packed with dream visions, eccentric characters and\u00a0world-changing events.\u00a0But while this animated film from director Anna Damian\u00a0delivers all that and more, nothing that happens in it would seem extraordinary if you were describing it to a friend. 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