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03/25/09
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Sita Sings the Blues (2008)
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Reviews Counted:21
Fresh:21
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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
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.
12/16/09
Captivating, mesmerizing, spellbinding -- I'll throw everything in the movie-critic book at this animated feature by Nina Paley
06/26/09
Sita Sings the Blues uses the supposed 'handicap' and 'limitations' of traditional animation to its advantage.
05/28/09
It's a staggeringly brilliant, astonishingly imaginative feature debut from a cartoonist turned filmmaker.
05/07/09
It's an infectiously personal work...a sterling example of animation meant resolutely for adults.
06/23/08
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.
12/14/09
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.
06/26/09
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
How does heartbreak become art? Just like this.
05/27/09
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 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
Startling in its delightful originality, it heralds the arrival of a major new talent in filmmaker Nina Paley.
05/15/09
To get any film made is a miracle. To conceive of a film like this is a greater miracle.
03/02/09
Top CriticConstitutes an irrefutable argument for classic 2-D animation as a viable, vibrant low-budget arthouse medium for adults.
10/18/08
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
12/06/09
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
03/08/09
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
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.
07/17/09
Among the most visually distinctive movies of the year.
10/30/08
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