Memoir of a Snail

Forcibly separated from her twin brother when they are orphaned, a melancholic misfit learns how to find confidence within herself amid the clutter of misfortunes and everyday life.

Cast

Sarah Snook

Sarah Snook

as Grace (voice)

Kodi Smit-McPhee

Kodi Smit-McPhee

as Gilbert (voice)

Jacki Weaver

Jacki Weaver

as Pinky (voice)

Magda Szubanski

Magda Szubanski

as Ruth Appleby (voice)

Dominique Pinon

Dominique Pinon

as Percy Pudel (voice)

Tony Armstrong

Tony Armstrong

as Ken (voice)

Paul Capsis

Paul Capsis

as Ian / Narelle (voice)

Eric Bana

Eric Bana

as James the Magistrate (voice)

Bernie Clifford

Bernie Clifford

as Owen Appleby (voice)

Davey Thompson

Davey Thompson

as Ben Appleby (voice)

Reviews

good.film

It feels great to laugh straight after you’ve just welled up. The characters in Memoir of a Snail, the new animated tale from Academy Award winner Adam Elliot, feel authentically real to us - and even though Elliot includes jokes, he doesn’t joke ABOUT them. He lays them bare to us with resp...

Chris Sawin

Australian animator and filmmaker Adam Elliot’s last full-length feature film was Mary and Max (2009). Memoir of a Snail is narrated and told from the point of view of Grace Pudel (Sarah Snook). Grace details her life story that finds humor and sentimentality in the face of depression, shortcomings,...

CinemaSerf

When an elderly lady gives out her last breath, and yells something about potatoes, we realise that “Grace” is now on her own. She’s a middle aged woman wearing a knitted hat with two big eyes poking from stalks on the top. She’s what you might call a glass half empty sort of person, and as she rele...

Louisa Moore - Screen Zealots

It’s been a long time since I’ve been moved by a piece of cinema as much as I was with “Memoir of a Snail,” a dark, profound, and highly personal stop-motion film from writer / director Adam Elliot . This work of animation confirms the power of the medium as a vessel for mature, deeply philosophical...

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