French Roast (2008)

Directed by

Fabrice Joubert

Genre

animation

Country

France

Runtime

8 min

Rated

U

Rating

6.8 of 10 from 61 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A well-to-do man in a French cafe tries to avoid paying for his coffee. A small crime leads to a chain of consequences involving a beggar and a bank robber.

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What happens

French Roast is a 2008 French animated short created by Fabrice Joubert. The short received the Best Animation Award at ANIMA Córdoba and was nominated for Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film in 2010 but lost to Logorama. French Roast is the first short film by Fabrice O. Joubert, an animator, who worked from 1997 to 2006 at DreamWorks Animation and later worked as the animation director of A Monster in Paris (2011). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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