Two-time Academy Award nominee Bill Plympton premiered his new 2D feature film Idiots and Angels at the Tribeca Film Festival last month. The dark comedy, produced on a shoestring budget using monochromatic digital coloring and no dialogues, follows a morally bankrupt man scrabbling to hide the good in himself—which manifests itself in a pair of angel wings that just won’t go away. Variety calls the new film Plympton’s “best animated feature to date” with the New York Press agreeing it is “the high point of the animator’s career.” The Daily Princetonian adds that Idiots and Angels is “both a delightful comic adventure and an effecting tale about spiritual transformation.” The film will next be screened at the Seoul International Cartoon and Animation Festival in Korea on May 21, followed by the Seattle International Film Festival on May 30-31, the Annecy Animation Festival in France on June 9-13 and the Edinburgh Film Festival in the UK on June 26 & 28. Several interviews with the always fascinating Bill Plympton started surfacing online: check out what he has to say about his new critically acclaimed film at AMC’s Shootout, Toon Zone and the Gothamist. The Idiots and Angels trailer is now available on the film’s official site.
Bill Plympton's Idiots and Angels getting rave reviews