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Consuming Spirits
Directed by
Chris Sullivan
Not Rated
2012
2h 16m
Animation
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7.3
89%
73%
5.7
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The backwater town of Magguson becomes the stage of 3 people, whose lives are hollow, traumatic and lonesome, but ultimately interconnected.
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Cast of Consuming Spirits
Nancy Andrews
Gentian Violet (voice)
Chris Sullivan
Victor Blue (voice) / Director / Producer / Director Of Photography / Editor
Judith Rafael
Mother Beatrice Elastica (voice)
Mary Lou Zelazny
Ida Blue (voice)
Robert Levy
Earl Gray (voice)
Chris Sullivan
Writer
Consuming Spirits Ratings & Reviews
Capital Times (Madison, WI)
Rob Thomas
Frame by frame, sketch by sketch, Sullivan has created a rich and layered world in "Consuming Spirits," one that won't easily let you go.
Los Angeles Times
Gary Goldstein
Something more coherent, masterful - and oddly poignant - than it may initially seem.
WCCO.com (Minneapolis)
Eric Henderson
Akin to the Disney version of The Death of Mr. Lazarescu. Consuming Spirits has moonshine on its rotten breath, but its images are never less than intoxicating.
Seattle Times
John Hartl
An ambitious animated epic that runs well over two hours and sometimes feels more like a feat than a film. Nevertheless, it's a kind of milestone in its genre.
Time Out Chicago
A.A. Dowd
Even if one grows impatient with the film's dovetailing tales of small-town desperation, it's hard to tire of its visual execution.
Chicago Sun-Times
Omer Mozaffar
It is the story of people in a small ordinary town, knowing nothing but their ordinary affairs, revealing their sins and crimes with an ordinary negligence.
Film Journal International
David Noh
The most creative film of the year: a striking, one-of-a-kind, hilarious dystopian epic of animated weirdness.
Paste Magazine
Gabrielle Lipton
Fifteen years in the making, Chris Sullivan's Consuming Spiritsis the work of his lifetime -- or any lifetime, for that matter.
New York Post
Farran Smith Nehme
Sullivan pulls the narrative noose tight at long last, and wraps up "Consuming Spirits'' as neatly as a Victorian novel - albeit one written by someone with an alarming affinity for the grotesque.
AV Club
Tasha Robinson
In its final half-hour, it pulls all the threads together, and a breathtaking bigger picture finally comes into focus.
Variety
Boyd van Hoeij
This labor of love from do-it-all animator Chris Sullivan has the same rough-edged, cantankerous charms as the characters that populate it.
The Hollywood Reporter
John DeFore
The regret-tinged film displays a distinctive voice and will be embraced by devotees of offbeat animation.
New York Times
A.O. Scott
At a time when animation is expected to be computer-generated, three-dimensional and relentlessly upbeat, Mr. Sullivan's film is flat, handmade and melancholy, a dark and painful fantasy for grown-ups.
NPR
Ian Buckwalter
The effect is that of disjointed, haunted reverie, of alternate realities colliding, soundtracked by mumbled asides and an uneasy murmur of background noise.
Village Voice
Marsha McCreadie
Consuming Spirits is overlong. A dystopian T.S. Eliot once said, "Humankind cannot bear too much reality," maybe even in a cartoon.
Slant Magazine
Joseph Jon Lanthier
Not only a monstrous visual achievement, but one of the most uniquely humanistic animated features of all time.
Antagony & Ecstasy
Tim Brayton
Issues of plot aside, though, the thing that any viewer is likely to notice first is the striking, nearly unpremeditated style of the film.
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