Memoir of Snail's reviews
Media reviews
Los Angeles Times
Despite its intimate focus, Memoir of a Snail is a towering achievement. This touching animated film serves as a reminder that Elliot is a humanist who clearly sculpts his "clayographies" (as he dubs his films) from the very essence of life itself.
Screen Daily
As hilarious as it is heart-wrenching ? frequently within the same scene.
The Guardian
There's an ingenuousness and innocence to Memoir of a Snail, a family-entertainment approachability that belies a strange intensity.
New York Times
The world that Elliot creates is so strangely beautiful that it's fun to look at. Plus, the end of "Memoir of a Snail" redeems its flights into tedium by giving us a reason to have watched them.
The A.V. Club
Though crafted with wry care and a captivatingly scuzzy aesthetic, the bittersweet biography is so miserable that the "sweet" ends up as a cloying chaser to old escargot.