MARCEL THE SHELL WITH SHOES ON
I went into MARCEL THE SHELL WITH SHOES ON (trailer here) dubious. While I was a big fan of the short, I didn’t see how it could sustain the length of a feature film. Well, I am here to say that MARCEL is amazing and beautiful and everyone who has ever felt lonely in their life should watch it. It is a movie about abandonment and loneliness and how small a person can feel in the world. Jenny Slate is heartbreaking. Her deadpan humor is used for both comedy and melancholy to equal effect. But to be clear, the film is also laugh-out-loud funny, full of the bizarre non sequiturs that made the original short such a hit. I laughed, I cried, I felt so many things! Isabella Rossellini is in it! Go see it!
—Julia Hammer, Director of Production
