The Hungarians get the tragedy of the human experience. This is an animated movie that is aimed more at adults than a children's audience, and the animation itself is simply breathtaking. Gorgeously rendered scenery and fast paced scenes. The artistry is something to behold.
The story focuses on trauma and how it ripples out across one's life and the lives of others. Ruben runs an art therapy institute and is widely renowned for his gift in treating the artistic soul. But this physician is sick as well. Every night he is bombarded by violent dreams, fantasies and nightmares that are based in scenes from famous paintings. So his art thief patients and he band together to get the paintings of his dreams into his possession in the hopes of quelling his torment. There are many layers of meaning woven into the dense fabric of this film, but the suggestion that theft (or collecting) is the only way to manage obsession. The movie can certainly be watched by children, and it is well worth the time.
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