It's a staggeringly brilliant, astonishingly imaginative feature debut from a cartoonist turned filmmaker.
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05/07/09
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Sita Sings the Blues (2008)
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Reviews Counted:18
Fresh:18
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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... [More]
Director: Nina Paley
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Reviews for Sita Sings the Blues
1 - 18 (sorted by critic A-Z)
Among the most visually distinctive movies of the year.
10/30/08
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.
03/12/09
Top CriticAvoids 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
03/08/09
One of the most vibrant, thrilling animated works I've ever seen.
03/25/09
To get any film made is a miracle. To conceive of a film like this is a greater miracle.
03/02/09
Top CriticEven 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.
07/17/09
How does heartbreak become art? Just like this.
05/27/09
Captivating, mesmerizing, spellbinding -- I'll throw everything in the movie-critic book at this animated feature by Nina Paley
06/26/09
Top CriticNina Paley's animated marvel mixes a personal tale of romantic woe with a fabulous, often hilarious, recounting of the Sanskrit epic fable The Ramayana.
06/26/09
Top CriticStartling in its delightful originality, it heralds the arrival of a major new talent in filmmaker Nina Paley.
05/15/09
All the various visual styles come together perfectly. It is rare to find a film that can be enjoyed from start to finish.
03/22/09
It's an infectiously personal work...a sterling example of animation meant resolutely for adults.
06/23/08
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.
05/29/09
Top CriticConstitutes an irrefutable argument for classic 2-D animation as a viable, vibrant low-budget arthouse medium for adults.
10/18/08
Top CriticThe 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
04/30/09
Sita Sings the Blues uses the supposed 'handicap' and 'limitations' of traditional animation to its advantage.
05/28/09
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.
11/12/09
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