Yuri Norstein’s stop motion paper cutouts have always been endlessly charming and the animation in The Heron and the Crane is no different. The illustrative storybook feel that this gives his work a signature charm is incredibly apt here, as the titular Heron and Crane go back and forth, trying and failing to woo the other with prospects of marriage. Ten minutes of such a back and forth could potentially get boring, but eventually Norstein starts representing a lot of this back and forth with new visual presentations of the proposal and the reject and the reconsideration. It’s cute even if a little sad.
Yuri Norstein’s stop motion paper cutouts have always been endlessly charming and the animation in The Heron and the Crane is no different. The illustrative storybook feel that this gives his work a signature charm is incredibly apt here, as the titular Heron and Crane go back and forth, trying and failing to woo the other with prospects of marriage. Ten minutes of such a back and forth could potentially get boring, but eventually Norstein starts representing a lot of this back and forth with new visual presentations of the proposal and the reject and the reconsideration. It’s cute even if a little sad.
