Memoir of a Snail (15)

★★★★ This delightfully dark and quirky adult animated film is every bit as good as its highly praised predecessor, the excellent Mary and Max (2008), bursting with wit, invention, charm, poignancy and moments of exquisite vulgarity. ~ Radio Times.

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From Academy Award-winning animation writer and director Adam Elliot, Memoir of a Snail is a poignant, heartfelt and hilarious chronicle of the life of an outsider finding her confidence and silver linings amongst the clutter of everyday life.

Grace Pudel is a lonely misfit with an affinity for collecting ornamental snails and an intense love for books.

At a young age, when Grace is separated from her fire-breathing twin brother Gilbert, she falls into a spiral of anxiety and angst.

Despite a continued series of hardships, inspiration and hope emerge when she strikes up an enduring friendship with an elderly eccentric woman named Pinky, who is full of grit and lust for life.

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★★★★ A unique Aussie stop-motion animation about coming out of your shell. ~ Time Out.

★★★★ This Oscar-nominated animation with Sarah Snook is a darkly funny, oddball delight. Adam Elliot’s stop-motion tale of twins separated as children in Australia is an enchantingly weird life lesson for us all. ~ Evening Standard.

★★★★ A charming, poignant tale of troubled twins. ~ The Guardian.

★★★★ Weird and wonky in the best way, this is a compelling character study that makes its joys, however fleeting, feel truly earned. ~ Empire.

★★★★ ~ The Irish Times.

★★★★ ~ The Times.