Animated cinema for adults has always provided little gems little seen and little understood by the public due to a sort of prejudice about the genre. Yet works like Waltz with Bashir or our local Cinderella the Cat are truly films to see and remember.

Flee follows in this vein, a work by the Danish Rasmussen which, with an original and interesting flight of fancy, combines animation with a documentary and realistic spirit. The story of reality through the stylization of animation. A stylization that grows in parallel with the cruelty of sitation.

Rasmussen in fact alternates simple pastel lines with black and white scenes that tell the real nightmares experienced by the protagonist during his wanderings as an illegal immigrant and during the violence of the police.

And so the story gradually envelops the viewer with narrative fluidity and astonishing dignity. The screenplay is balanced between pain and joy, without ever indulging in pietism or false moralism. Everything is brought to light because with animation even the worst things can be imprinted on film without ever overdoing it.

The first film to reach an Oscar nomination for best animated film, best documentary and best international film, it is truly one of those little gems worth seeing especially at this time when war is knocking on the doors of 'European Union. Nice, even if with a really small distribution. Too bad