‘My Love Affair With Marriage’ Review: A Humorous But Hard-Hitting Animation for Adults About the Thing We Call Love
variety.comAlissa Simon Film Critic With “My Love Affair with Marriage,” animator Signe Baumane creates another dense personal narrative that expresses complicated concepts and ideas in images.
Stuffed with irony, humor, Soviet history and musical numbers, her ambitious second feature (following 2014’s festival hit “Rocks In My Pockets”) boasts 30 singing and speaking characters (including a talking neuron that explains the biochemical processes of the brain) and about 200 non-speaking ones.
Using hand-drawn characters animated against 3D hand-made sets and papier-mâché sculptures, it merges the origin story of an independent, artistic Soviet girl with an account of her biochemical processes at crucial moments in her life.
A paean to gender equality and being yourself, the overall message is that we all want to love and be loved, but need to be accepted for the way we are.
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