Tragic Story with Happy Ending
Directed byRegina Pessoa
Music byNormand Roger
Release date
  • 2005 (2005)
Running time
7 minutes 43 seconds
CountriesPortugal
Canada
France

Tragic Story with Happy Ending (French: Histoire tragique avec fin heureuse) is a 2005 animated short by Regina Pessoa. To make the 7 minute 43 second film, Pessoa's drawings were transferred to glossy paper, brushed with India ink, scratched with a blade to give the effect of an engraving, then photographed. National Film Board of Canada film composer Normand Roger supplied the score for the film.[1][2]

The film was the second in a trilogy of animated shorts by Pessoa about childhood, between A Noite (1999) and Kali the Little Vampire.[3]

Reception

Tragic Story with Happy Ending has received numerous awards, becoming one of Portugal's most acclaimed animated films.[4] They include the Cristal and TPS Cineculte awards for short film at the Annecy International Animated Film Festival, a special international jury prize at the Hiroshima International Animation Festival,[5] and a Genie Award nomination for Best Animated Short Film at the 28th Genie Awards.

Critical response

Eliane Gordeeff of Zippy Frames online animation journal praised the film as managing to translate the drama of being placed in a "wrong body" into its own animated universe and placed it at the top of Regina Pessoa's filmography.[6]

References

  1. ↑ Serpa, Ana (1 December 2008). "Regina Pessoa – Happy story with happy ending". UP Magazine. TAP Portugal. Retrieved 7 October 2014.
  2. ↑ Lumsden, Ian (11 October 2007). "Regina Pessoa "Tragic Story with Happy Ending"". Animation Blog. Retrieved 7 October 2014.
  3. ↑ Arrant, Chris (15 May 2012). "World Premiere of Andrea Dorfman's NFB Film "Big Mouth" At Worldwide Short Film Festival". Cartoon Brew. Retrieved 7 October 2014.
  4. ↑ Sérgio C. Andrade (18 May 2014). "Um museu de animação no espaço rural". publico.pt (in Portuguese). Retrieved 8 October 2014.
  5. ↑ Kaufman, Debra (November 8, 2006). "Culled from festivals and art house theaters, animated short films vie for a spot in the sun". Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 7 October 2014.
  6. ↑ Regina Pessoa Films, Ranked, Zippy Frames. Retrieved 6 Dec 2023.


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