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Marcel the Shell with Shoes On

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Brett Alan Dewing
Aug 11, 2022
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How in the world can I describe this film? Like a summer camp project by Julian Schnabel? Terrence Malick's idea of a mockumentary? A poetic memoir by a perceptive child? None of that comes close to telling you what this movie is.

Whatever it is, Marcel the Shell with Shoes On is a beautiful meditation on all the smallness and bigness of life.

Many of you…

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