Intricate and Odd, With Little Child’s Play By MANOHLA DARGIS Published: September 6, 2012 Above: Buttercup, held prisoner, is a character in the director Jiri Barta’s “Toys in the Attic.” The strange, often beautiful beings in the animated feature “Toys…
Toy Story by way of Jungian subconscious, this phantasmagoric stop-motion animated feature by Jiří Barta, the director called “the European Tim Burton,” is a rich, multi-course meal of images both enchanting and disturbing—the right mix for childhood, in other words.
