The Odyssey - review

BAC, London

puppets and live music, drawing and storytelling come together in the role of narrative film in the ingenious story of Homer, which offers 70 minutes that are a cross between a silent film and projected a graphic novel. It is not words, but never without teeth. - Tools and coarse black and white illustrations that become cut-through projection in a 3D world - are at the base, but the effect is often unexpectedly powerful. However, it feels like something you could do at home with the children, and that's part of its appeal. No wonder that in his poetry every day, offering an impromptu miniature epic.

Part of the role of the film
• pleasure is not just to see what happens on the screen, but how it gets there, it is unfortunate that the size of space means that only those who sat on the left side of the audience the opportunity to see the act of creation. It is also regrettable that although the economy is not in the narrative, it is not always sufficient clarity to support the story. Despite its considerable know-how, it sometimes feels like an exercise in style and narrative technique.

But every time I found myself losing patience, I was drawn back through the images and wonderful music live that evoke not only some of the most famous episodes Return of Ulysses, but it also suggests other trips: in the darkest recesses of the mind, when all seems hopeless, and from childhood to maturity. The show could do with more humor, but it is a precious moment when a pin boy in a missing person poster to a tree, as if his father is a lost cat. Never really enters the heart of the arrow so that the return of Odysseus arrives at the center of the target, but it is a night of unpretentious charm.

Rating: 3/5