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'Memoir of a Snail' review: A bleak, brilliant, and hilarious rumination on loss

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The Mary and Max director's latest work leans into the nature of loss and adversity through unforgettable characters and exquisite design.

Memoir of a Snail is an unrelentingly grim narrative.

The film's best survival tool through it all is Grace herself, with Succession 's Sarah Snook .

Memoir of a Snail is a smorgasbord of detail.

From its opening frames bursting with piles of cigarettes, cocktail frankfurts, boxes of snail poison, and random garden gnomes.

The stop-motion animation film features around 7,000 objects and 200 sets, all meticulously shot by cinematographer Gerald Thompson .