My Life as a Courgette

2016
8.5
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Title: My Life as a Courgette

Original Title: Ma vie de Courgette

Year: 2016

Info

Release Dates

  • UK: June 02 2017
  • United States: February 24 2017

Plot

Courgette is the nickname of a weird 9 year old boy. After the passing of his dear mother, Courgette befriends a police officer called Raymond that accompanies him to his new foster home filled with many more orphans of his age. Courgette struggles at first to find a place in this strange and sometimes hostile environment. At the beginning he doesn't make any friends. Yet with Raymond's help he will little by little start making some friends, and will learn to trust, to find true love and form his own family.

The movie is the first job of Claude Barras and is written by Céline Sciamma (director of 'Girlhood' and 'Tomboy'). Is an adaptation of Gilles Paris' novel. Before it was even premiered it already was the most awarded animated film of 2016.

Awards

  • 2017 Academy Awards (Oscars): 1 0
  • 2017 Golden Globes: 1 0
  • 2018 BAFTA Awards: 1 0

Director:

Claude Barras Claude Barras

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Trivia

A new approach

Director, Claude Barras, says he wanted to make a movie set on an orphanage that didn't portray the place as the tradicional hell it usually is in movies and books.

Oscars

Is Switzerland's choice for Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.

Is in the San Sebastián International Film Festival in the 'Pearls' section.

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