Heartbreaking animation inspired by French New Wave and Studio Ghibli is a stop-motion ode to social work

The heartbreaking My Life as a Zucchini (2016) makes viewers care deeply for little models of children, and that’s no mean feat. The stop-motion animation, which looks like Henry Selick and Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993) but feels more like an anime by Hayao Miyazaki, is set in a child­ren’s home. The beauty of this sad movie is that it’s tinged with a realistic kind of hope that’s grounded in the attainable rather than dreams. Director...

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