(courtesy ESMA)
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TheCGBros presents Quack! by ESMA – a huge egg washes up near the stream where two small forest spirits live. A duckling comes out, and they decide to go on an adventure to bring him back to his mother. (Un gros œuf s’échoue près du ruisseau où vivent deux petits êtres de la forêt. Un Caneton en sort et ils décident de partir à l’aventure pour le ramener à sa mère.)Quack! is directed by Jeanne Audounet, Léa Burkart, Louis Herrero, Elio Humbert, Ariane Moulard, Marie-Lou Peyre, Maëlys Sabuco, Julien Vannet with music by Arthur Troch, sound by Sébastien Fournier, Tristan Le Bozec and voices b Maëlys Sabuco, and Julien Vannet (courtesy YouTube)
What a delight!
Quack! not only has lusciously vivacious, gorgeously world-building animation at its disposal but it manages to tell a deeply engaging, completely compelling story without minimal use of dialogue (which is universally intelligible when it does occur).
The story about two forest spirit friends – one studied, responsible and thoughtful, the other spontaneous and excitable – helping us a just hatched duckling to find its way back to its mother and siblings is a joy, not simply because everyone is happily reunited but because in doing so, the two friends gain a deeper understanding and appreciation for each other.
If you need a sweet, charmingly brief animated short story that deliver quite the emotional payoff, all served with a spirit-lifting dose of buoyant good humour, then gran six minutes or so and watch Quack! and realise all over again how wonderful life can be.