
Based on Paco Roca's comic of the same title (2008 Spanish National Comic Prize), WRINKLES is a 2D animated feature-length film for an adult audience. 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 infu... (Full plot summary below)
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Based on Paco Roca's comic of the same title (2008 Spanish National Comic Prize), WRINKLES is a 2D animated feature-length film for an adult audience. 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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| Village VoiceSherilyn ConnellyIgnacio 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. |
| Eye for FilmAmber WilkinsonA thought-provoking consideration of ageing from the perspective of the elderly that is, perhaps ironically, hard to forget. |
| VarietyJonathan HollandAlthough nothing here quite matches the moving, life-in-five-minutes montage in Pixar’s “Up,” one swooping flashback sequence comes very close. |
| GuardianPeter BradshawThis movie has the same desolate quality as Philip Larkin's poem The Building, and yet it is tender and lovable, too. |
| Daily Telegraph (UK)Tim RobeyIt’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. |
| Independent (UK)Geoffrey MacnabThe film has a defiance and humour reminiscent of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. It's far more uplifting than its subject matter might suggest. |
| HeyUGuysStefan PapeA charming production, poignant and tender and one that is bound to move and compel you - while remaining so effortlessly subtle throughout. |
| The SkinnyJosh Slater-WilliamsWrinkles is a nuanced, rich look at human frailty and the beauty of life, alternating between frank and tenderly humane notes with perfect precision, making the conventional beats its story does hit genuinely poignant. |
| New York PostSara StewartThe film doesn’t wallow in grief; it’s a thoughtful and nuanced portrait of a stage of life we often choose not to see. |
| New York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanFerreras is similarly frank, but heavy doses of humor and empathy, along with gorgeous hand-drawn animation, keep things from getting too morbid. |