Tante Hilda !

Despite its wonderful playfulness and impishness, this animated film doesn’t conceal the fact that, instead of children, it is targeted at young environmentalist parents and hipsters, even though it is screened in the children’s sections at festivals. In the context of the film, the flowing “vintage” animation with fidgety lines and hand-colouring comes across like a telling quirk aimed at evoking sentiment for authentic non-series products. The inclination towards adult viewers is further confirmed by the caricature-style drawing, which delights in emphasising bodily proportions. The animation, where emphasis is placed on the expressive movement of the given parts, is reminiscent of the animated films based on the Werner comic-book franchise by the comics author Brösel. After all, the vegetarian animated movie and the beer-soaked German comic-book series have a lot in common and the two works essentially differ only in the particular lifestyles that they glorify. Whereas Brösel manages to imbue his characters with a sizable portion of self-irony and satire, Aunt Hilda does an exemplary job of keeping the agitprop flowing. (08.04.2014)