Little Amélie: a tender and creative exploration of the formation of childhood identity

By Rayna Denison, Professor of Film and Digital Arts, University of Bristol

Little Amélie or the Character of Rain is as much about animation as an artform as it is an adaptation of Belgian author Amélie Northomb’s book The Character of Rain (2000).

The French animated feature, co-directed by Maïlys Vallade and Liane-Cho Han, makes sophisticated use of animation style to interrogate the formation of the self in early childhood.

The film begins with Amélie telling us that she began as a god – a tube-like god – before being born into a “vegetative” state as a baby…

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