Sylvia (1985)

Directed by

Michel Murray

Genre

animation

Country

Canada

Runtime

10 min

Rating

6.3 of 10 from 3 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A bored housewife escapes her dull family life by imagining herself as a romance novel heroine. The film satirizes modern family dynamics through a mix of live action and animation.

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What happens

Sylvia is a Canadian animated short film, directed by Michel Murray and released in 1985. A satire of the modern family, the film blends live action and animation in its depiction of a bored housewife with a couch potato husband, a computer-addicted son and a punk rocker daughter, who escapes from her family life by imagining herself as the heroine in a romance novel. The film was voiced by Denise Ally, Daniel Bérard and André Ducharme, with Mario Boucher, Caroline Gadoury, Michel Hébert and François Pierre Le Scouarnec appearing in the live-action segments. The film premiered at the 1985 Montreal World Film Festival. The film was a Genie Award nominee for Best Animated Short at the 7th Genie Awards in 1986. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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