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The Most Precious of Cargoes

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Once upon a time there was a poor lumberjack and his wife who lived in a deep Polish forest. The poor woman moaned that she had no children. Day and night, trains passed through the woods. One day, as the poor woman was watching a train that she thought was a cargo train, a package was thrown out and fell into the snow....

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Justin Chang The New Yorker The movie becomes a bathetic wallow in Holocaust imagery, drowned in an Alexandre Desplat score whose every surge turned my heart increasingly to stone. May 30, 2024 Full Review Leslie Felperin The Hollywood Reporter Other viewers are likely to be more entranced by the film’s borderline magical realist elements, but for this viewer the story felt rote, on the verge of trivializing and exploiting the horrors of the Holocaust. May 29, 2024 Full Review Peter Debruge Variety Director Michel Hazanavicius finds a poignant way to address not only the horrors of the Holocaust, but the kindness that combated it, crafting an indelible parable destined to be watched and shared by generations to come. May 28, 2024 Full Review Alistair Ryder Vague Visages To write it off as another misjudged Holocaust fantasy tale in the vein of Life is Beautiful or Jojo Rabbit would be to overlook the subtle ways Hazanavicius attempts to interrogate the genre as a whole. Feb 9, 2025 Full Review Àngel Quintana Caimán Cuadernos de Cine The film can be considered as a compendium of Hazanavicius's defects and virtues. [Full review in Spanish] Jul 27, 2024 Full Review Carlos F. Heredero Caimán Cuadernos de Cine Hazanavicius transforms his story into a short animated film in which everything he puts in is not only quite ugly and poor, but incomprehensibly primary under the pretext of naivety. [Full review in Spanish] Jul 27, 2024 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis Once upon a time there was a poor lumberjack and his wife who lived in a deep Polish forest. The poor woman moaned that she had no children. Day and night, trains passed through the woods. One day, as the poor woman was watching a train that she thought was a cargo train, a package was thrown out and fell into the snow....
Director
Michel Hazanavicius
Producer
Patrick Sobelman, Florence Gastaud, Michel Hazanavicius
Screenwriter
Michel Hazanavicius, Jean-Claude Grumberg
Production Co
Ex Nihilo, Les Compagnons du Cinéma
Genre
Animation, Drama
Original Language
French
Runtime
1h 20m