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Sita Sings the Blues

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Sita Sings the Blues (2008)

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Reviews Counted:23

Fresh:23

Rotten:0

Average Rating:8.3/10

Rated: Rating Pending

Runtime: 82 mins

Genre: Education/General Interest

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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Full Review Source: Hollywood Reporter | comment Comment
12/31/09
Hollywood Reporter
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And the ingenuity of Sita -- which evokes painting, collage, underground comic books, Mumbai musicals and “Yellow Submarine” (for starters) — is dazzling. Not busy, or overwhelming, or eye-popping. Just affecting, surprising and a lot of fun.

Full Review Source: New York Times | comment Comment
12/28/09
A.O. Scott
A.O. Scott
New York Times
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Paley's beguiling, consistently inventive visuals and sly yet melancholy tone are about as warm and winning as heartbreak-fueled empowerment gets.

Full Review Source: Village Voice | comment Comment
12/23/09
Michelle Orange
Michelle Orange
Village Voice
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This colorful, cranium-bursting film isn’t about one specific tale so much as the endless ways you can present narratives; it’s nothing less than a kitchen-sink deconstruction on the art of storytelling.

Full Review Source: Time Out New York | comment Comment
12/16/09
David Fear
David Fear
Time Out New York

Romantic breakups have provided inspiration to artists through the ages, but never have lemons been made into such a sparkling lemonade as Paley's done here.

Full Review Source: Reeling Reviews | comment Comment
12/14/09
Laura Clifford
Laura Clifford
Reeling Reviews

The story shifts effortlessly between the two-dimensional collage style of the narrator segments, the classical artistic design of the Rama-Sita story, the pencil sketch style of the modern story, and finally Hanshaw's musical numbers in a two-dimensional

Full Review Source: Cinemalogue.com | comment Comment
12/06/09
Rubin Safaya
Rubin Safaya
Cinemalogue.com

An infectious, dazzling and poignant story about love and loyalty in both mythical India and modern America, and perfect proof that animation can work for adults.

Full Review Source: Screenwize | comment Comment
11/12/09
Simon Weaving
Simon Weaving
Screenwize

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.

Full Review Source: Oregonian | comment Comment
07/17/09
Stan Hall
Stan Hall
Oregonian

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.

Full Review Source: Denver Post | comment Comment
06/26/09
Lisa Kennedy
Lisa Kennedy
Denver Post
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Captivating, mesmerizing, spellbinding -- I'll throw everything in the movie-critic book at this animated feature by Nina Paley

Full Review Source: Chicago Reader | comment Comment
06/26/09
J. R. Jones
J. R. Jones
Chicago Reader
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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.

Full Review Source: Chicago Tribune | comment Comment
05/29/09
Michael Phillips
Michael Phillips
Chicago Tribune
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Sita Sings the Blues uses the supposed 'handicap' and 'limitations' of traditional animation to its advantage.

Full Review Source: Deseret News, Salt Lake City | comment Comment
05/28/09
Jeff Vice
Jeff Vice
Deseret News, Salt Lake City

How does heartbreak become art? Just like this.

Full Review Source: Flick Filosopher | comment Comment
05/27/09
MaryAnn Johanson
MaryAnn Johanson
Flick Filosopher

Startling in its delightful originality, it heralds the arrival of a major new talent in filmmaker Nina Paley.

Full Review Source: Windy City Times | comment Comment
05/15/09
Richard Knight
Richard Knight
Windy City Times

It's a staggeringly brilliant, astonishingly imaginative feature debut from a cartoonist turned filmmaker.

Full Review Source: Combustible Celluloid | comment Comment
05/07/09
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Combustible Celluloid

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

Full Review Source: eFilmCritic.com | comment Comment
04/30/09
Peter Sobczynski
Peter Sobczynski
eFilmCritic.com

One of the most vibrant, thrilling animated works I've ever seen.

Full Review Source: eFilmCritic.com | comment Comment
03/25/09
David Cornelius
David Cornelius
eFilmCritic.com

All the various visual styles come together perfectly. It is rare to find a film that can be enjoyed from start to finish.

Full Review Source: rec.arts.movies.reviews | comment 1 Comment
03/22/09
Mark R. Leeper
Mark R. Leeper
rec.arts.movies.reviews

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.

Full Review Source: Boston Globe | comment Comment
03/12/09
Ty Burr
Ty Burr
Boston Globe
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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

Full Review Source: rec.arts.movies.reviews | comment Comment
03/08/09
Shane Burridge
Shane Burridge
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