Rocks in My Pockets

Name: Rocks in My Pockets
Genre: Drama, Comedy, Animation, Family
Released: September 3, 2014
Duration: 88 min
Rating: 78

2014

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Zeitgeist Films | Release Date: September 3, 2014 | Not Rated

Summary: Fighting for her sanity, Signe Baumane uses wit and imagination to confront the secrets of her family's madness.

Director: Signe Baumane

Genre(s): Drama, Comedy, Animation, Family

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 88 min

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Alissa Simon

Sep 3, 2014

Boasting a narrative of extraordinary complexity and density, stuffed with irony, humor and tales-within-tales, the imaginative animated memoir Rocks in My Pockets merges a mini-history of 20th-century Latvia with that of helmer Signe Baumane and her forebears. Read full review

Nicolas Rapold

Sep 3, 2014

The bravery of Ms. Baumane’s own coping methods (which some may disagree with) brings her tough-minded film to a cleareyed, forward-looking conclusion that doesn’t lose sight of her demons. Read full review

Peter Keough

Sep 25, 2014

Signe Baumane opens her sardonically hilarious, sneakily moving, autobiographical animated feature, Rocks in My Pocket, with what looks like a darker version of one of those chipper psycho-pharmaceutical ads. Read full review

Nick McCarthy

Sep 4, 2014

This inventive animated feature about depression and familial roots suggests NPR's "The Moth" storytelling series by way of Persepolis, mixing mesmerizing memoir monologue with whimsical animation. Read full review

Stephanie Merry

Oct 23, 2014

There are slow bits, as Baumane delves into stories that are less interesting than others. But overall, her family history is rife with complex characters, and she brings them all to life in a loving, if scrutinizing, way. Read full review

Charles Solomon

Sep 11, 2014

Rocks in My Pockets is not an easy film to watch... But it serves as a striking reminder of the individuals who suffer similar pains in silence, and of the special power of animation to make the unseen visible. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Christy Lemire

Sep 4, 2014

Depression is such a personal, intangible, mystifying phenomenon. Signe Baumane tries to make sense of it in unexpected fashion — through colorful animation and dark humor — with Rocks in My Pockets. Read full review

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