Cartoon Noir (1999)

Directed by

Julie Zammarchi, Pedro Serrazina, Paul Vester, Piotr Dumała

Genre

anthology film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 23m

Rating

7.1 of 10 from 6 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This is an anthology film that collects six animated short films from the United States, Poland, the Czech Republic, England, and Portugal. The shorts are linked by a noir-inspired mood and include stories about a couple in a troubled relationship, workers facing layoffs, alien abductions, a cat and the moon, a woman in a city apartment, and an ape.

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What happens

Cartoon Noir is a 1999 feature-length anthology film consisting of six animated short subjects from five countries. The short films brought together for this anthology were Gentle Spirit (1987) by Piotr Dumała, Club of the Laid Off (1989) by Jiří Barta, Abductees (1995) from England’s Paul Vester, The Story of the Cat and the Moon (1995) from Portuguese animator Pedro Serrazina, and a pair of shorts from American filmmakers: Suzan Pitt's Joy Street (1996) and Julie Zammarchi's Ape (1992). Cartoon Noir was released on DVD in 2000. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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