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This animated fable moistens the tear ducts even as it stirs the senses, writes DONALD CLARKE

HERE IS AN animated film about being left behind. It’s about the advance of technology. It’s about the savage, carnivorous nature of popular culture. It’s about the realisation that, however we resist, younger generations will see us into the grave and forget we walked the earth.