My daughter Katie sent me the link to this seriously fantastic animated, stop motion short called Marcel the Shell With Shoes On. It’s the 2010 the collaborative effort Dean Fleischer-Camp and Jenny Slate. This brilliant documentary-style short is about Marcel, an anthropomorphic child-like shell character whose biggest regret is not having a dog. I loved Marcel, and I loved the creative spirit these two writers/film-makers demonstrated in making a film with so much content and so little hype. But don’t just take my word for it. It was an official Sundance Film Festival pick!
I can’t wait to see Jenny Slate’s children’s book version with the same character to be released in November of this year.
Sheryl McFarlane 