In the rich town of Hamelin, cunning artisans, clever merchants and ambitious burghers meet and mingle around the market place. Most of these inhabitants show a lively appreciation for money : shining coins are minted, traded, bartered, promised. When rats overrun the town, attracted by the omnipresent waste, the inhabitants hire the services of a sorcerer...
A dark animation movie, "Krysar" is an adaptation of the well-known fairytale of the Pied Piper. It's a bleak, savage condemnation of societies worshipping the Mammon. There's something Biblical about its relentless ferocity. The visual aspect is both striking and original. I don't know how to describe the look best - expressionist, deconstructivist, influenced by German(ic) Medieval and Renaissance art ? - but it's very well suited to the story being told.
"Krysar" is aimed at adults not at children, for instance because it contains a frightening and heartrending rape scene. (If you thought that animation movies couldn't deliver frightening and heartrending rape scenes, think again.) The general look and feel of the movie too is too claustrophobic and oppressive for young viewers, as is the crashing conclusion.
The movie is brave enough to point out just why humans hate and fear rats so much. Versatile, tough, cunning, vicious and opportunistic, rats are our four-legged counterparts...
A dark animation movie, "Krysar" is an adaptation of the well-known fairytale of the Pied Piper. It's a bleak, savage condemnation of societies worshipping the Mammon. There's something Biblical about its relentless ferocity. The visual aspect is both striking and original. I don't know how to describe the look best - expressionist, deconstructivist, influenced by German(ic) Medieval and Renaissance art ? - but it's very well suited to the story being told.
"Krysar" is aimed at adults not at children, for instance because it contains a frightening and heartrending rape scene. (If you thought that animation movies couldn't deliver frightening and heartrending rape scenes, think again.) The general look and feel of the movie too is too claustrophobic and oppressive for young viewers, as is the crashing conclusion.
The movie is brave enough to point out just why humans hate and fear rats so much. Versatile, tough, cunning, vicious and opportunistic, rats are our four-legged counterparts...