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Flawed

Directed by Andrea Dorfman
Canada, 2010 (animation, 12 minutes, colour, English)
Also known as "Imparfaite"
Flawed
Image: © National Film Board of Canada
Video (National Film Board of Canada)
Video (National Film Board of Canada) [French]

Film Description:
"Flawed is nothing less than a beautiful gift from Andrea Dorfman's vivid imagination, a charming little film about very big ideas. Dorfman has the uncanny ability to transform the intensely personal into the wisely universal. In Flawed she deftly traces her encounter with a potential romantic partner, questioning her attraction and the uneasy possibility of love. But, ultimately, Flawed is less about whether girl can get along with boy than whether girl can accept herself, imperfections and all. In many ways, Flawed is both an exquisite tribute to the art of animation and a loving homage to storyboarding, a time-honoured way of rendering scenes while pointing the way to the dramatic arc of the tale. Here Dorfman lets her colourful storyboards shape up into the very content of the film. The resulting effect is pure and fresh, as if we were watching the birth not only of love but of the film itself."
-- National Film Board of Canada (source)

Film Credits (partial):
Written by: Andrea Dorfman
Produced by: Annette Clarke, Kent Martin
Narrator: Andrea Dorfman
Animation: Andrea Dorfman
Music: Julia Kent
Production Company: National Film Board of Canada / Office national du film du Canada
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Quote about Flawed

"Flawed is an animated gem, endearingly sweet and funny, and incredibly profound. The narrative is based on the real-life evolving romance between an artist in Toronto and a plastic surgeon in Halifax. Through time-lapse cinematography, it describes how the two managed to sustain their long-distance relationship, in large part by exchanging handmade postcards. Artist and filmmaker Andrea Dorfman wrote, directed, and narrated Flawed. Her voice-over relates the story as the illustrations take shape under her hand on uniformly sized sheets of paper, one after another."
-- Julie Chychota (source)

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