Le Saucier
2020 · 10m · USA
Directed by Eric Paschal Johnson, Liana Finck
Genres: animation, comedy, sci-fi
Tones: absurdist, darkly comic, whimsical
Centuries after a meteor wipes out civilization, future historians sift through artifacts and decide the most precious thing humanity ever produced was the recipe for the five French mother sauces. Tom Felton narrates with appropriate gravity.
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Apocalypse short that decides the great human achievement is hollandaise. Liana Finck illustrating and Tom Felton narrating is the kind of weird crew you can't fake.
Liana Finck's illustrations narrated by Tom Felton telling humanity's last masterpiece is bechamel — Johnson and Finck build a deadpan New Yorker cartoon of an apocalypse. Sublimely silly conceit, beautifully executed.
Post-apocalyptic mockumentary where the most precious surviving artifact is the recipe for the five French mother sauces, narrated by Tom Felton, illustrated by Liana Finck — that's a deeply specific assemblage of taste. Hand-drawn-bechamel-as-civilization is the kind of joke that lives or dies on tone, and this team has the calibration for it.
Reviews
The team has a wondrous feel for combining the epic and the absurd, the emotional and the playful.