Live Action has some high level stuff; the first flick, a German movie (On The Line) was very moving. A security man having a crush on a woman and...due to misplaced jealousy he is part of a scene where he lets her brother unknowingly die. One could have set this film in any country and it would work.
New Boy, was a pretty nice and touching film from Ireland about an African boy's first day in school. What followed was another story based in Nazi-occupied Europe, the German film, Toyland was a good one, but I didn't find it too amazing; it won the Oscar. Again executed at a solid level.
Besides New Boy, the Danish film, The Pig was a very simple story, a comedy about a man who lands in a hospital and becomes fascinated & obsessive about a painting of a pig, which creates complication.
And then a very interesting French Film, Manon on the Asphalt. A young woman has an accident, is apparently dying and we see her (new) perspective on things - what things were, meant and what could be.
The animation level was over all good and some were top of the league. In fact, we watched around 8 films, not just the Oscar and the one I found best, was perhaps not even in Top 5. There was a lot of fun. The Japanese one (Pieces of Love) that won was more on the serious side and quite a touching story and super-animation. Of the Oscars, the one I found very impressive was 'This Side Up, an English film I think, which was a lot of fun. However a film that was sweeping in its magnitude was about a world that was ending. And...i don't recall its name!
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