The Girl Who Cried Pearls

Name: The Girl Who Cried Pearls
Director: Chris Lavis
Genre: 16, 18
Released: 2025
Cast: James Hyndman, Simone Paradis, Gabrielle Dallaire, Charlotte Loseth, Colm Feore

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Chris Lavis• Director James Hyndman Simone Paradis Gabrielle Dallaire Charlotte Loseth Colm Feore

A haunting fable about a girl overwhelmed by sorrow, the boy who loves her, and how greed leads good hearts to wicked deeds.

Who would love this

♥Fans of stop-motion animation and intricate visual storytelling.
♥Viewers who appreciate fables and cautionary tales with moral complexity.
♥Audiences interested in films that explore themes of greed, desire, and the human condition.
♥Those who enjoy artistically driven, independent short films.
♥People who appreciate haunting and lyrical narratives.

Who might not

✗Viewers seeking straightforward, lighthearted entertainment.
✗Those who prefer fast-paced action or conventional narrative structures.
✗Audiences who are uncomfortable with darker themes or ambiguous endings.
✗Individuals who do not connect with animated films or stylized storytelling.

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What critics are saying about The Girl Who Cried Pearls

‘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.

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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.

Chris Lavis, Maciek Szczerbowski Unpack 'The Girl Who Cried Pearls'