The best part about My Life as a Courgette (also known as My Life as a Zucchini), a new (fairly) low budget, stop-motion animation movie about a boy who is placed into an orphanage after his mother's untimely death, is how appealing it will appear to both the young and the old. As the young, titular character is briefed about his fate by the kind Officer Raymond, Courgette indeed resembles a known vegetable, his blue hair and olive-like eyes only a small part of his shy and withdrawn personality.
At the orphanage, he meets other children whose parents, he will discover, are of far worse ilk than his have ever been. He will also fall in love with the charming newcomer, an all-too-wise for her age girl, Camille (whose aunt can even make Cinderella's own stepmother look meek by comparison). Courgette is that rare animated movie that will dazzle the developing wisdom and sheer wonder of children, all the while impressing the adults about its insight into the plight of abandoned children. It's as ingenious as it is charming - and worthy proof that movies don't have to be overly long in order to be effective.
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