Ah, L'Amour (1995)

Original title

Ah, l'Amour

Directed by

Don Hertzfeldt

Genre

comedy film

Country

United States

Runtime

2 min

Rating

6.1 of 10 from 52 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This is an early student short film about a young man's clumsy and painful experiences with love. The animation is simple and the humor comes from sudden, awkward situations.

quirkydarkly comicminimalistwhimsicalrawabsurdfast-paceddeadpan

What happens

Ah, L'Amour (1995, French for 'Ah, Love') is Don Hertzfeldt's first 16mm student animated short film, completed at the age of 18 at UC Santa Barbara. Though animated in a beginning film production class and never meant to be exhibited, the short had a long life at animation festivals, launching Hertzfeldt into cult status at a young age. In 1998, the short won the Grand Prize Award for "World's Funniest Cartoon" from the HBO U.S. Comedy Arts Festival. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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