Coraline

And here it is… the absolute treasure of the DVDPost staff: the animation film Coraline (DVD or Blu-ray). It all begins with a dark novel by the English writer Neil Gaiman, published in 2002. The story was lauded everywhere and critics were fond to draw comparisons with Lewis Caroll’s masterpiece Alice in Wonderland as both stories contain a high dose of surrealism and feature parallel words.

Eighteen months before the book is published, the writer decides to hand his manuscript to a man called Henry Selick. Henry is a director and Neil has followed his career with growing interest: director of James and the Giant Peach and of Nightmare Before Christmas. Only a week after Henry received the manuscript, he calls the writer and tells him, completely and utterly charmed by the story: ‘I want to turn Coraline into a film’. The least one can say is that Henry has kept his word; after two years of pre-production and eighteen months of filming, Coraline has finally become a film.

But who is Coraline? Well, this little girl has to leave her original house to move with her parents to a giant mansion. As her parents are always busy working, they hardly have time left to spend with Coraline. One day, when she is exploring the house on her own, she discovers a door that leads to a parallel world. There, she encounters a world that is exactly the same as her own, just with some tiny, interesting differences…



No matter how old you are, no matter how many times you have already seen this film, the story of Coraline just moves you time and time again. Funny, poetic, thrilling, fantastic and fascinating: Coraline has it all.

By combining technology with an unseen visual splendor, this animation film is something you simply have to see for yourself.