Film Review: CORVINE
by Karen Pecota

Sean McCarron, Canada 2022

Filmmaker McCarron brings a delightful story, in animation form, about a little boy, Corvine, who grew up in the country. He was fascinated with the crows that lived all around him. He was enamored with their ability to fly and their squawking language. Corvine attempted to identify with them and tried to fly, but his good intentions left him with broken bones. He decided to just take up squawking and follow the crows as they went to work and back. Corvine's happy place was to be among the lot.

As time passed, it was time for Corvine to enter school in the city. His verbal language skills were not the best. but his squawking, like a crow, was amazing. Corvine was ridiculed by his classmates and misunderstood. Corvine was disappointed he could not relate to his peers.

Corvine's parents were perplexed and didn't know how to help him adjust to a world he didn't understand. His grandparents had a plan, and Corvine's parents agreed to try it out.

The plan was to send Corvine to a school of the arts in dance, ballet and acrobatics so that he could learn to use his body to reach heights he had not experienced. One might even say he might learn to fly. Corvine's family acknowledged his differences and made a way for him to excel in what gave him the freedom to be himself, and possibly come closer to identify with the crows in the countryside.