This is a Canadian 15-minute animated short film from almost 35 years ago. Writer and director Frédéric Back from France won his first Academy Award for it. A second one followed a couple years later for "The Man Who Planted Trees". And while I kinda like the latter, I am surprised about the former's success. It may just be personal bias, but the animation style really is not my cup of tea and the story was not particularly memorable either in my opinion. However, the music in here was fine. But still, this is certainly among the lowest-quality short films I have seen that managed Oscar glory. Back died during Christmas 2013 at a pretty high age and I am a bit surprised to see that his body of work was not prolific at all although he worked for many decades in the animation industry. Anyway, I will probably, at some point, check out his other works. I hope these are superior to this one here. Crac I cannot recommend. Go and check out the director's other short film that I mentioned earlier. You will enjoy that one more I guess.
Review of Crac
