Product: Blood Tea and Red String (2006)
Rating: 4.0
An achievement
I didn't really know what to expect going in to this film. I had come across it many moons ago while looking for another DVD title, then spent the next year with it on my Wishlist. I'm glad I finally broke down one day and bought it for myself. It's an interesting film, not quite as I expected, but it is beautiful, and a strange, alluring triumph. One woman, over the course of a decade, doing all the set design and filming and lighting herself, shot a feature length stop motion animation of this magnitude. It shows that this film was a learning process for her, as the shots start out too fast, and in some places too flickery from lighting changes, but it isn't too long in to the film she finds her rhythm. And sometimes the intended story points aren't always as obvious to the viewer as they were to the film maker in her fevered creative state, but you can learn to forgive her these faults, seeing as she's providing us with such an amazing journey.This film is a real achievement that needs to be seen to be believed.