Even if its audience will be about 0.01 percent of that of Coraline and Up, Nina Paley's hilarious, effortlessly cross-cultural and utterly original animated feature should be considered with the same lofty regard.

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Sita Sings the Blues (2008)
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Average Rating:8.3/10
Synopsis: Director Nina Paley takes an innovative approach to the typical break-up story with this whimsically animated film. Based on RAMAYANA, SITA SINGS THE BLUES follows two broken relationships: Nina's... Director Nina Paley takes an innovative approach to the typical break-up story with this whimsically animated film. Based on RAMAYANA, SITA SINGS THE BLUES follows two broken relationships: Nina's failed romance with her husband and the goddess Sita's estrangement from the god Rama. This film festival favorite features music from classic jazz chanteuse Annette Hanshaw. [More]
Director: Nina Paley
Director: Nina Paley
Screenwriter: Nina Paley
Producer: Nina Paley
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Reviews for Sita Sings the Blues
Nina Paley's animated marvel mixes a personal tale of romantic woe with a fabulous, often hilarious, recounting of the Sanskrit epic fable The Ramayana.
Captivating, mesmerizing, spellbinding -- I'll throw everything in the movie-critic book at this animated feature by Nina Paley
Nina Paley's delicious Sita Sings the Blues finds solace in autobiography and an animated gold mine in the caverns of an ancient Sanskrit epic.
Sita Sings the Blues uses the supposed 'handicap' and 'limitations' of traditional animation to its advantage.
Startling in its delightful originality, it heralds the arrival of a major new talent in filmmaker Nina Paley.
It's a staggeringly brilliant, astonishingly imaginative feature debut from a cartoonist turned filmmaker.
The fact that a film this bold and adventurous can even exist in a time when even the independent filmmakers are less likely to find themselves experimenting with concept and form in the hopes of scoring a distribution deal is a cause for celebration
All the various visual styles come together perfectly. It is rare to find a film that can be enjoyed from start to finish.
An almost indescribable pleasure from Brooklyn-based cartoonist and animator Nina Paley. The film, dazzling and poignant and five years in the making, retells the ancient Indian epic The Ramayana from a gentle but insistent feminist perspective.
Avoids becoming pretentious or 'artistic' through a lively sense of humour that vies with the graphic design and Hanshaw's performances as SITA's main asset
To get any film made is a miracle. To conceive of a film like this is a greater miracle.
Constitutes an irrefutable argument for classic 2-D animation as a viable, vibrant low-budget arthouse medium for adults.
It's an infectiously personal work...a sterling example of animation meant resolutely for adults.
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