Gallery
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Press Kit
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Articles & Interviews
Hollywood Reporter →
‘Oscar Nominated Shorts 2019: Animation’: Film Review
“Bagnall imaginatively enters the old woman’s mind, transitioning to more stylized drawing and almost synaesthetic colors as we see the memories she’s reliving”
IndieWire →
2019 Oscar Nominated Animated Shorts, Ranked: Sad Childhoods Dominate Colorful Category
“Bagnall instead uses the animation medium to create a dazzling representation of conflicting memories and timelines with shape-shifting colors and settings, all of which come together in the big-hearted finale.”
LA Times →
Review: This year’s Oscar Nominated Shorts cover a broad swath of human emotion
“Similarly heart-tugging but uniquely graceful in its line-centric ebb and flow is Irish filmmaker Louise Bagnall’s Late Afternoon, which treats an elderly woman’s dementia like a tide rushing between powerful memories and a worrisome present”
Boston Globe →
This year’s Oscar nominated animated shorts run from the weird to the surreal
“Bagnall’s visual style combines clean lines and washes of brilliant chromaticism, and the effect is powerfully moving.”
Variety →
Cartoon Saloon’s ‘Late Afternoon’ Takes Tender Look at a Woman With Dementia
Deadline Hollywood →
‘Late Afternoon’ Director Louise Bagnall Conjures Up Handmade, Watercolor World With Oscar-Contending Animated Short
The Hollywood Reporter →
How ‘Late Afternoon’ Helmer Honored Her Parents With “Compassionate” Animated Short
Animation World Network →
State of Mind: Exploring Memory in Louise Bagnall’s ‘Late Afternoon’
Film Inquiry →
Tribeca Film Festival: Animated Shorts Curated By Whoopi Goldberg
Animation Scoop →
AWARDS WATCH: Louise Bagnall on her Oscar Shortlisted “Late Afternoon”
Irish Independent →
‘It’s part of our culture to be good at telling stories’ – Louise Bagnall talks Late Afternoon
Awards Daily →
Interview: Louise Bagnall Examines The State of Mind in Animated Short – Late Afternoon
Lights Camera Jackson →
‘2019 Oscar Nominated Animated Shorts’ Review
The Film Stage →
Review: The 2019 Oscar-Nominated Short Films: Animation
“- with swirls of color, morphing shapes, and characters spanning time before making way for others, the journey becomes an unpredictable ride through the recesses of a fractured mind pulled towards clarity by the most innocuous triggers imaginable.”
Short Of The Week →
LATE AFTERNOON: a sweet, sincere study of dementia with a refreshingly broad appeal.
“Louise Bagnall’s film distinguishes itself not with high drama or visual pyrotechnics, but by paring the subject down to a few essential emotions. It’s a mature work, confidently quiet and genuine to the core.”
Austin Chronicle →
2019 Oscar-Nominated Short Films: Animation
“The transitions are delicate and lovely, and with repetition, bring her back comfortingly to the present.”
Chicago Reader →
The Oscar-nominated animated and live-action shorts are full of disconnections
Seattle Times →
Oscar shorts 2019: a look at the live-action and animated nominees
“This lovely, haunting work by Louise Bagnall finds an old woman literally falling into scattered memories from past chapters in her life.”
Good Times →
Film Review: 2019 Oscar-Nominated Short Films
“Louise Bagnall’s lyrical, emotionally stirring Irish entry Late Afternoon, beautifully rendered in fluid pastel watercolors, features an older woman diving deep into the well of memory to piece together fragments of a life she’s forgotten.”
Film Pulse →
THE OSCAR NOMINATED SHORT FILMS 2019: ANIMATION Review
Women in Animation: Spotlight Stories →
SPOTLIGHT STORIES: LOUISE BAGNALL
Animation Magazine →
Drifting Away: Louise Bagnall’s ‘Late Afternoon’ Tenderly Explores Dementia
Gold Derby →
Louise Bagnall on how her grandmothers inspired finalist for Animated Short Oscar
Take One →
Edinburgh Shorts: What The Future Holds
Film Ireland →
Review of Irish Film @ Galway Film Fleadh • New Irish Shorts 7: IFB World Premiere Shorts
Anime Superhero →
Review: “Weekends,” “Age of Sail,” “Late Afternoon,” and “Back to the Moon” Animated Shorts
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