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Riddles for a Candy

In Jiří Barta’s imaginative debut, a magic book poses three riddles to an anteater-like creature. His reward for answering, a wrapped piece of candy, proves elusive. Barta's animation revels in the possibilities of transformation and symbolic logic.

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Release : 1978
Rating : 6.2
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Genre : Fantasy Animation

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Reviews

Hellen
2021/05/13

I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

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Clevercell
2018/08/30

Very disappointing...

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Intcatinfo
2018/08/30

A Masterpiece!

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Jakoba
2018/08/30

True to its essence, the characters remain on the same line and manage to entertain the viewer, each highlighting their own distinctive qualities or touches.

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Edgar Soberon Torchia
2017/05/16

I guess that sometimes in their professional lives animators consider the possibility of making products for children. It is one of the most common uses given to the art of animating anything, from the human figure to strokes of paint applied to plain celluloid, though it most often animates mermaids, mice, rabbits, frogs, ducks, fairy tales and nursery rhymes. Jiri Barta also did, and the result is perhaps too weird for a kid... But who knows? Cultures are different and children from some places react differently than those from somewhere else. In any case, take an entity which is a mixture of a human, a rooster, a dog, several mosquitoes, a seashell and an anteater, make him crave for a bonbon, and test him with riddles he has to solve first in order to win the candy and eat it, and you have Barta's debut. And a fine, funny debut it is, to be just to his effort. If it is enjoyable to everybody, who knows, but it does not matter much anyway.

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Lee Eisenberg
2011/09/28

Czech animator Jiří Barta made his debut with the oddball "Hádanky za bonbón" ("Riddles for a Candy" in English). Unlike his later movies, this one contains dialog, most of which is the main character's repeating animal-themed riddles in a small book, while shapes keep changing. I prefer Barta's more avant garde movies. Since this is Barta's debut, we can forgive it for being less interesting than his other work. Still, the movie isn't terrible. I liked seeing all the shapes that they came up with. I wasn't sure what the point of the candy itself was.So, this is mainly worth seeing because it was Barta's debut. His later work is neater.

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Polaris_DiB
2008/11/25

Jiri Barta's first animated short is also his weakest. It involves a series of forms and creatures made out of confections and drawings in a storybook mode, with page turnings and a childish narrator mimicking animal sounds and grumblings. For the life of me, however, I can't really tell what the point is beside the various morphing attributes of the confections. Also, animating with candy is a weird sub-sub-genre of animation, as it seems quite a lot of people do it--and I don't know exactly what the appeal is, I don't mind it, but once again I don't really see where this short was going.In the middle of the short there's this big question mark that turns into antagonists to the shape-shifting main character. That's kind of how I feel about it, and after several viewings, I think that's the only feeling I can say sticks.--PolarisDiB

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