Watch this when
Wolfwalkers
When the people who love you try to keep you safe by keeping you small. 🐺
Who it's for
Wolfwalkers gives a child's frustration with a protective parent a clear visual language: the walled town of Kilkenny is drawn with rigid, boxy lines while the forest is loose and alive, so the pull between conformity and inner freedom is something you can see.
Feelings it meets
What it is
Wolfwalkers is a 2020 animated film directed by Tomm Moore and Ross Stewart, with a screenplay by Will Collins. It is set in Kilkenny, Ireland, in 1650. English hunter Bill Goodfellowe is summoned to wipe out the wolves in the forest beyond the town walls under an authoritarian Lord Protector.
Where to find it
Rent or buy on major digital stores. Streaming availability rotates; check JustWatch.
Before you start
Heads up: Peril and violence against wolves.
Age: PG (peril, brief language, scary images, sequences of violence, some thematic elements; Common Sense age not verified, suggested 8+)
Everything was in confusion in the Oblonskys' house.Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina, Part 1, Chapter 1 (tr. Constance Garnett)
