Animation for adults, not solely because of a sex scene or two but because of the total tapestry of lost souls and losers around an apartment building in Sydney, one of whose residents sends away for a book, at the titular price, that promises to disclose to his uncritical eye the meaning of life: “People always think there’s only one meaning, but actually there are six.” The painterly, or underground comicky, stop-motion puppets move with the approximate fluidity of the first King Kong, but paradoxically enough they gain some life from the inanimate dim-lit sets, painstakingly detailed in an architectural style we might call Low-Rent Dollhouse. With the voices of Geoffrey Rush, Anthony LaPaglia, Samuel Johnson, Joel Edgerton, Claudia Karvan; directed by Tatia Rosenthal. (2009) — Duncan Shepherd
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