Joachim's Dictionary

January. 01,1965      
Rating:
6.2
Trailer Synopsis Cast

A light-hearted animated romp through the alphabet, with each letter identified by both a word and a visual interpretation of that word, by the crudely-drawn Joachim.

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Reviews

SnoReptilePlenty
1965/01/01

Memorable, crazy movie

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InformationRap
1965/01/02

This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

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Juana
1965/01/03

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

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Scarlet
1965/01/04

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

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Michael_Elliott
1965/01/05

Le dictionnaire de Joachim (1965) ** 1/2 (out of 4) This nine-minute animated short from Walerian Borowczyk tells the French alphabet using a word and then we see that word acted out. The animation is quite simple as each letter has the same drawing of the same man and then we see it altered to fit the word. At nine-minutes I thought this was a somewhat interesting film but at the same time it's subject got old rather quickly so by the time you get to the end you feel rather bored. I thought the animation was about as simple as you could get but it fit nicely with the material. There's certainly much better shorts out there but if you're a fan of the director then this is worth watching.

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