The Debutante (2022) | Directed by Elizabeth Hobbs

A still from the film THE DEBUTANTE.
5/5
Elizabeth Hobbs’s The Debutante is an outstanding, incredibly disturbing, but very funny animated short film about breaking free from familial and societal expectations. The animation style is truly wonderful – lines and watercolors blend into one another across a variety of background materials. The narrator gives a lovely performance, and the rest of the voiceover work is stellar. It’s a grim short, but it’s utterly delightful and charming.

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