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It's Such a Beautiful Day
Directed by
Don Hertzfeldt
Not Rated
2012
62m
Fantasy
,
Animation
,
and more
8.4
100%
92%
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Bill struggles to put together his shattered psyche, in this new feature film version of Don Hertzfeldt's animated short film trilogy.
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Cast of It's Such a Beautiful Day
Don Hertzfeldt
Narrator (voice) / Director / Writer / Producer
Sara Cushman
Doctor (voice)
It's Such a Beautiful Day Ratings & Reviews
Varun
October 19, 2024
One of the best depictions of mental illness I’ve seen. It’s quite terrifying to ponder the possibility of such illnesses affecting you, especially when you turn old. This movie made me cry. It made my past and childhood flash by my eyes. It made me thankful for the life and good health I have right now. Also the animation and visuals were really good and unique, and the music was fantastic. The way it portrays time is mesmerising, especially at the end of the movie. I wasn’t expecting a 60 minute movie to take me on such a wild ride.
Polygon
Toussaint Egan
An outstanding work of creativity... you absolutely must make time to see it.
Rachel's Reviews (YouTube)
Rachel Wagner
[Don Hertzfeltd] does respect his viewers and he tries to give them something that'll make them think.
Film Inquiry
Kevin L. Lee
An authentic depiction of depression, mental illness, and a poetic meditation on mankind's relationship with the universe.
Alternate Ending
Tim Brayton
The feature built out of those three parts thus lacks anything "new"; but the experience of watching them all in one smooth stream is nothing shy of a revelation.
Chicago Reader
J. R. Jones
Hertzfeldt's work is sometimes elusive in its simplicity, but it can be profound as well; with his humor, darkness, philosophical yearning, and insistence on drawing every line himself, he may be the only legitimate successor to Charles M. Schulz.
Metro
Matt Prigge
It's devastating stuff - no less than a stick figure "Tree of Life" - and it confirms that Hertzfeldt has become "mature" without sacrificing any of his considerable gifts.
The Film Stage
Brian Roan
This isn't adult-friendly - it is decidedly adult-oriented - but still not the type of things that most adults would want to see. It's a profound, beautiful statement on mortality, and it is not friendly.
Nerdist
Trilby Beresford
There aren't many films where the characters and philosophical ideas stay with you for months afterward, but this is one of them.
Slate
Forrest Wickman
And though the animation, sound, and special effects were all done by one man slaving away at his home, It's Such a Beautiful Day is realized with remarkable inventiveness and technical sophistication.
The Hollywood Reporter
John DeFore
A truly moving meditation on identity, family and (as the title of his previous short immodestly put it) the meaning of life, Hertzfeldt's magnum opus is more cosmically satisfying than The Tree of Life.
Variety
Peter Debruge
Alternately poignant and absurdist.
MUBI
Kurt Shulenberger
The film could have devolved into another variation of Godard's galaxy in a coffee cup, but It's Such a Beautiful Day retains the biting humor and fecund observation of the everyday that allows it to stretch as far into the domestic/cosmic as it can.
Combustible Celluloid
Jeffrey M. Anderson
By the time the movie reaches its metaphysical end, you will feel you've seen something profound, perhaps even life-changing.
Reel Times: Reflections on Cinema
Mark Pfeiffer
Underneath It's Such a Beautiful Day's simple surface and droll humor is a philosophical core as dense as any film's.
Antagony & Ecstasy
Tim Brayton
One of the most philosophically and narratively complex films of the year.
Salt Lake Tribune
Sean P. Means
Hertzfeldt's simple drawings, evocative imagery and melancholy narration come together most beautifully in the finale, which suggests that the end of life isn't as bad as an unending one.
New York Times
Neil Genzlinger
Mr. Hertzfeldt proves that pizazz isn't everything. Enriching his bare-bones drawings with a few well-deployed visual tricks, he tells the story of an Everyman who at first seems merely Thurberesque.
Film Journal International
David Noh
Highly original animated divertissement, filled with surprising depth and humor.
Slant Magazine
Joseph Jon Lanthier
By favoring the repetition of gestures over plot or graphics, Don Hertzfeldt argues that animation is, at its essence, a kinetic rather than simply visual form of expression.
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