Specky Four-Eyes
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Specky Four-Eyes |
| Original title | Cul de bouteille |
| Country of production | France |
| original language | French |
| Publishing year | 2010 |
| length | 9 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Jean-Claude Rozec |
| script | Jean-Claude Rozec |
| production |
Mathieu Courtois Jean-François Le Corre for Vivement Lundi !, uniFrance |
| music | Arnaud Bordelet |
| cut | Jean-Claude Rozec |
Specky Four-Eyes is a French animated short film directed by Jean-Claude Rozec in 2010. The film is narrated by Dominique Pinon .
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One day the ophthalmologist discovered that the little boy Arnaud was very nearsighted. He was given glasses with glasses as thick as a bottle, and the boy's appearance frightened even his parents. For Arnaud, the glasses have far-reaching consequences: Not only is he teased at school as a “cul de bouteille” (“bottle bottom”); even his blurry world, in which he created living beings, monsters and aliens in simple objects in his imagination, now lies before him in a real and unspectacular manner. Even his loyal companion, a little male, now turns out to be a simple shell. Again and again, Arnaud takes off his glasses to see the friends he trusts again.
One day Arnaud is so frustrated with life with glasses that he throws them away. He thinks he sees a unicorn in a puddle, which he follows. The unicorn, which is really just the glow of the lanterns in the puddles, disappears down a dark side street. Arnaud, on the other hand, doesn't know where he is, and the figures in the streets - mothers pushing prams turn into monsters - frighten him. He loses his male mussel and wants to look for it in a backyard. Here he thinks he is standing on a square full of skulls and suddenly sees a dragon emerging from a cave. With a piece of wood, which Arnaud sees as a sword, he confronts the dragon. In reality, Arnaud is standing on rails and almost got run over by a train. At the police station, he gets his glasses back and his parents scold him about his excessive imagination. In the evening Arnaud is put to bed. Although he understands his parents who want to make him accept reality, he secretly knows that there is another behind the supposed reality. If he didn't have the beings he has come to love, the world would be cold and bleak for him. As he falls asleep, he ponders what the unicorn is doing.
Awards
Specky Four-Eyes received the 2010 Ottawa International Animation Festival Award for Best Animated Film for Children. In 2012, it was shortlisted for an Oscar in the “ Best Animated Short ” category as one of ten short animated films .
Web links
- Specky Four-Eyes in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Specky Four-Eyes on Vivement Lundi!
- Specky Four-Eyes on unifrance.org
- Specky Four-Eyes on bcdb.com