Her boss takes Bécassotte to the sea-side at Trou-sur-Mer. She spends her time knitting.
Marius O'Galop
France

Trou-sur-Mer, that blistering scab on the Atlantic ribcage, has seen bathers, gamblers, and consumptive poets spew across its boards, but never a creature as paradoxically frigid and flammable as Bécassotte—an anti-heroine whose spinal column seems assembled from mismatched umbrella ribs. O'Galop, cartoonist-turned-c...

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" Trou-sur-Mer, that blistering scab on the Atlantic ribcage, has seen bathers, gamblers, and consumptive poets spew across its boards, but never a creature as paradoxically frigid and flammable as Bécassotte—an anti-heroine whose spinal column seems assembled from mismatched umbrella ribs. O'Galop, cartoonist-turned-cineaste, compresses an entire social satire into four flickering minutes, hand-painting each frame so the sea alternates between absinthe-green and arterial crimson, as though the ..."


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