Calamity, A Childhood of Martha Jane Cannary

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***Calamity, A Childhood of Martha Jane Cannary*** (French: Calamity, une enfance de Martha Jane Cannary) is a French-Danish animated adventure coming-of-age film based on the American Frontier woman named Martha Jane Cannary also known as "Calamity Jane".

## Plot

Martha Jane Cannary, her father, and her sisters traveled with a caravan through the American West to Oregon. When his father was injured by his horse, he felt compelled to move forward and was responsible for his family's carriage. However, the leader of their group, Abraham, appoints his son Jonah to succeed Martha's father. A dispute ensues between Martha and Jonas as she struggles to break free from her assigned gender role, while struggling to get her father's approval. Martha decides to secretly spend her training night tying and riding horses, and making pants for herself, something that is forbidden because it is expected that women will wear clothes and skirts.

One day, his team met an American soldier who told them they were going in the wrong direction. While Abraham was disgusted with this challenge to his authority, the group decided to trust the soldier and change course. Martha walks with the soldier as she helps him control the family carriage from Jonas. After a particularly bad fight with Jonas where he takes advantage of the ability to pull his hair, he decides to cut it. One night, the soldier seemed to have disappeared along with some goodies from the group. The caravan suspects that Martha helped the soldier steal her belongings and decided to leave her family.

After becoming a bridge to both her family and friends, Martha decides to flee in search of the soldier who robbed them. Along the way, he meets Samson, a lonely young man who is looking for a way to make money. Although he initially deceived her into believing he was a man and his family would offer him a reward for his safe return, they later became friends after escaping with another group of travelers. . Martha found the way to a military camp where she suspected the soldier. He meets Madame Mustache and helps her find the gold in the mine she owns; in return, he helped Martha get through the military camp. When he found it, he discovered that Jonah had given him the items, to bribe him to leave the group. Samson decides to work in Madame Mustache's gold mine, and Martha can finally find and return to her caravan. By showing them that being a woman does not prevent her from surviving in the Wild West, she is accepted back into the group.

## Why It Rocks

1. Great animation which is basically familiar to Long Way North.
2. Lovely soundtrack.
3. Likable characters like Martha, Samson, Madame Mustache her siblings and her father.
4. This film won the Annecy International Animation Festival last year.
5. The character design is really impressive.
6. It was based on real-life Martha Jane Cannary.
7. To fill the sentence in WIR #4, it was also nominated in Schlegel International Film Festival in Germany, the NYICFF in the USA, the TAAF in Japan, the BAFICI in Argentina and the Stockholm Film Festival Union in Sweden. along with Nahuel and the Magic Book, which they both are nominated in the same awards together.