Movement, Certainly one of 2024’s Greatest Motion pictures, Hits Max Subsequent Week

In the event you didn’t get the possibility to see the Oscar-nominated Movement, excellent news: it hits Max on Valentine’s Day.

Directed by Latvian filmmaker Gints Zilbalodis, the indie characteristic will hit Warner Bros.’ streaming service forward of its TV premiere on HBO the next day on Saturday, February 15. At time of writing, Movement is barely on streaming: alongside its upcoming Max launch, it’s obtainable on Prime Video, Apple TV+, and Fandango at Residence. If the movie’s getting a bodily launch for Blu-Ray and different codecs, a launch date hasn’t been revealed.

Movement, or Straume in its native language, facilities on an unnamed cat hanging out in a forest when a flood overwhelms the forest and close by human metropolis. The cat, together with a canine, capybara, fowl, and lemur, come throughout a makeshift boat and take it looking for dry land. After its world premiere at Cannes 2024, it obtained vital acclaim from worldwide critics for its Blender-made animation and dialogue-free storytelling. It’s additionally racked up a number of awards, together with Greatest Animated Function on the Golden Globes and Greatest European Animated Function finally yr’s European Movie Awards. As well as Greatest Animated on the incoming Oscars, it’s additionally up for Greatest Worldwide Function Movie.

Whereas it’s primarily performed in theaters in Latvia, France, and Belgium, Movement hit US theaters final November and left this previous January. Its arrival on Max and HBO subsequent week is sweet for anybody who missed it in theaters and hasn’t seen it but, or for these maintaining with the Oscars and the movies nominated in every class.

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