The impressive animated memoir “My Favorite War” revisits writer-director Ilze Burkovska-Jacobsen’s childhood in Soviet Latvia in the 1970s and ’80s. The result of a nine-year labor of love from a Norwegian-Latvian team, it combines distinctive cutout animation with family photos and archival footage to forge a look at an authoritarian society through a young girl’s eyes. It also encompasses her eventual realization of the painful history repressed beneath the platitudes and propaganda of her school days.
A narration by the adult Ilze adds another layer to the narrative as she looks back and ponders the connection between freedom of choice and happiness. After a remarkable festival career that included a prize at Annecy, the film is now available on demand via Vimeo for American audiences.
The war referred to in the ironic title is WWII, or as Ilze is taught, the great patriotic war against the Nazi enemy.
A narration by the adult Ilze adds another layer to the narrative as she looks back and ponders the connection between freedom of choice and happiness. After a remarkable festival career that included a prize at Annecy, the film is now available on demand via Vimeo for American audiences.
The war referred to in the ironic title is WWII, or as Ilze is taught, the great patriotic war against the Nazi enemy.
- 1/21/2021
- by Alissa Simon
- Variety Film + TV
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