The Girl Who Cried Pearls
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A haunting fable about a girl overwhelmed by sorrow, the boy who loves her, and how greed leads good hearts to wicked deeds.
A haunting fable about a girl overwhelmed by sorrow, the boy who loves her, and how greed leads good hearts to wicked deeds.
‘The Girl Who Cried Pearls’ Filmmakers On Crafting A Beautiful Tale Of Love & Greed.The film is a fable with a modern twist. One of the things that Patrick did to hint at the ending was creating this beautiful piece of music, while the girl is crying pearls, which was designed to be synthetic keyboard music. And even outside of that, as well, I think he did a great job of scoring all those classically romantic stop-motion emotional moments.
The 17-minute short is also animation art of the highest order, seen in the extraordinary bric-a-brac detail of a pawnshop, lending it an immersive authenticity. The puppets’ heads in the past are silicon moulds multi-layered by oil painting to look like aged wood. The film uses both claymation and plastic 3D printing and sets scrubbed with paint spread on garbage bags to make them look grimily weathered. Variety talked to Lavis and Maciek Szczerbowski about “The Girl Who Cried Pearls” which, produced by the National Film Board, was one of five shorts to open the 2025 Annecy Festival.
