- Directed by Victor Jaquier
- Written by Victor Jaquier
- Stars Kacey Mottet Klein, Virginia Meisterhans, Jean-Claude Dreyfus
- Run Time: 16:57
- Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zro5A7gZdKs
Synopsis
A young girl cries as her mother dies and asks if this is the fault of the winemaker. The old doctor tells the girl abut the winemaker. We get a flashback…
Peter the winemaker works in the fields and he and Mathilde are an item. He goes to her father to ask for her hand, and the old man is skeptical at first, but the wine is so good that it’s hard to resist. Still, the old man says that if the wine is that good, then he should give a bottle to the Pope, thinking he’ll be killed on the trip to Rome and not come back.
The trip to Rome does, in fact, go badly. Peter falls to his death. However, it seems that even Death likes good wine…
Commentary
The animated style is excellent. The music is fantastic, and the voice acting is perfect. The idea of trapping Death has been done many times before, but the animation here really makes it worthwhile— there are many scenes that couldn’t be done using live-action.