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Sita Sings the Blues (2008)
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Reviews Counted:21
Fresh:21
Rotten:0
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
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 4/5 |
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 |
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A- |
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 |
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B+ |
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 |
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4.5/5 |
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 |
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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 |
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3.5/4 |
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 |
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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 |
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3.5/4 |
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 |
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3/4 |
Sita Sings the Blues uses the supposed 'handicap' and 'limitations' of traditional animation to its advantage. Full Review |
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How does heartbreak become art? Just like this. Full Review |
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Startling in its delightful originality, it heralds the arrival of a major new talent in filmmaker Nina Paley. Full Review |
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4/4 |
It's a staggeringly brilliant, astonishingly imaginative feature debut from a cartoonist turned filmmaker. Full Review |
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5/5 |
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 |
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5/5 |
One of the most vibrant, thrilling animated works I've ever seen. Full Review |
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8/10 |
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 |
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3.5/4 |
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 |
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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 |
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4/4 |
To get any film made is a miracle. To conceive of a film like this is a greater miracle. Full Review |
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7/10 |
Among the most visually distinctive movies of the year. Full Review |
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Constitutes an irrefutable argument for classic 2-D animation as a viable, vibrant low-budget arthouse medium for adults. Full Review |
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