Laura Gonçalves’s The Garbage Man is a sweet story about an eccentric, generous, and warm man, told through a series of reflections from his family. The animation is pleasant and flows nicely from one anecdote to the next. However, the narrative is a bit formless. The anecdotes meander and the film doesn’t really give us much in the way of a good entry point or endpoint. It’s a sweet film filled with loving stories, but there just isn’t much for us, as the audience, to hold onto.