Arrugas (Ignacio Ferreras, 2011)

Wrinkles, a gentle portrait of a man entering a retirement home and succumbing slowly to Alzheimer's is not a typical subject matter for animation, but the medium allows a crystallisation of the internees as, first and foremost, human beings, that casting of live actors might obfuscate. The director worked on Chomet's The Illusionist of 2011, and  this shows, with the same tone of wry comedy complementing rather than swamping the immanent pathos. It's not a complex piece and the subject matter allows only one outcome, but its characters are drawn with warmth and sympathy.

6/10