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Wrinkles(Arrugas)

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Spain · 2011
1h 29m
Director Ignacio Ferreras
Starring George Coe, Tacho González, Álvaro Guevara, Casey E. Lewis
Genre Animation, Drama, Comedy

Wrinkles portrays the friendship between Emilio and Miguel, two aged gentlemen shut away in a care home. Recent arrival Emilio, in the early stages of Alzheimer, is helped by Miguel and colleagues to avoid ending up on the feared top floor of the care home, also known as the lost causes or "assisted" floor. Their wild plan infuses their otherwise tedious day-to-day with humor and tenderness, because although for some their lives are coming to an end, for them it is just a new beginning.

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80

Total Film by

Its shuffling pace and basic animation all add to the heartbreak as the protagonists slowly unravel, even as they fight to keep a grip.

80

Variety by Jonathan Holland

Although nothing here quite matches the moving, life-in-five-minutes montage in Pixar’s “Up,” one swooping flashback sequence comes very close.

100

The Hollywood Reporter by Neil Young

An exceptional animated feature from Spain, Wrinkles imaginatively and sensitively explore one of the major issues confronting most of the developed world: how to look after senior citizens in a rapidly aging population.

75

New York Post by Sara Stewart

The film doesn’t wallow in grief; it’s a thoughtful and nuanced portrait of a stage of life we often choose not to see.

100

Village Voice by Sherilyn Connelly

Ignacio Ferreras's traditionally animated Wrinkles is a beautiful, subtle horror movie about the rigors of old age, made all the more horrifying because it will happen to all of us fortunate enough to live a long life.

80

The Telegraph by Tim Robey

It’s a compact and obliquely moving film, deftly constructed to let the dying of the light arrive, not as sunset, but a kind of dawn.

75

Slant Magazine by Wes Greene

In its visionary dream and flashback sequences, the film becomes a comment on the rapidly diminished state of traditional animation.

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