Movie Preview: Oil Painters animate “The Peasants”

This Polish entry for Best International Feature Oscar contention is from the creators of the animated classic “Loving Vincent.”

The filmmakers are going to some pains in not allowing this filmed/then-animated movie to be described as “rotoscoped,” as they employed 100 oil painters, Photoshop, and CGI in creating some critters to go along with the characters.

But it looks like Rotoscope 2.0, lush and gorgeous, real next-level animation in this most painterly of styles.

This adaptation of a novel by Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont, this adaptation has a turgid, melodramatic feel — a love triangle, a period piece, etc.

Sony Pictures Classics and we’ll know more about its release schedule when they learn if it merits an Oscar nomination.

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