Rocks in My Pockets: Animated Feature About Sanity, From Director Who Was in a Soviet Asylum
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I always enjoy finding an animated feature that breaks the mold of what the U.S. rigidly thinks cartoons must be, and Rocks in My Pockets, which opens September in New York and LA with a national rollout to follow, certainly fits that bill. A “comedy about depression,” it uses hand-drawn surrealism mixed with stop-motion to create a dreamlike portrait of five women in Latvian filmmaker Signe Baumane’s family, and their various struggles with mental illness. But it’s no downer drama – the journey into madness takes the viewer there as well, with all sorts of strange sights and sounds.
Nothing cynical or snarky to say here, folks. Watch the trailer and you’ll see why I’m just plain ol’ looking forward to it.
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Luke Y. Thompson has been writing professionally about movies and pop-culture since 1999, and has also been an actor in some extremely cheap culty and horror movies you will probably never hear much about (he is nonetheless mostly proud of them, as he met his wife on one). As editor of The Robot's Voice since 2012, he can take the blame for the majority of the site's content, all of which he creates because he loves you very, very much. (Although he loves nachos more. Sorry.) Prior to TRV, Luke wrote for publications that include the New Times LA, Los Angeles CityBeat, E! Online, OC Weekly, Geekweek, GeekChicDaily, The L.A. Times, The Village Voice, LA Weekly, and Nerdist