Perhaps the thrilling beauty of “Marcel the Shell With Shoes On” is that it feels like it actually happened.Yes, that is an unusual thing to say about a movie where a man befriends a one-inch-tall shell with little shoes, a tiny mouth, and a single expressive eyeball that lives in the Airbnb where he’s biding his time after a break-up.
But it’s true.
So many projects, from the collected filmography of Christopher Guest to NBC’s undying “The Office,” take on the “mockumentary” or faux doc approach, using the style and timing of documentary filmmaking as an aesthetic choice to set…The post Marcel the Shell With Shoes On Review: A Lovely Slice of Whimsical, Melancholy Magic [SXSW] appeared first on /Film.
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