It’s Such a Beautiful Day & ME - Enzian Theater

Don Hertzfeldt’s newest animated film ME is a 22-minute musical odyssey about trauma, technology, and the retreat of humanity into itself. Indiewire has described it as “soul-shaking” and “a triumph”.

2023, 22 Minutes

It’s Such a Beautiful Day

Returning to theaters for the first time since 2012, It’s Such a Beautiful Day has been hailed by critics and audiences alike as one of the best animated films of all time. Originally released as three short films over the course of six years, the picture was captured entirely in-camera on a 35mm rostrum animation stand. It’s Such a Beautiful Day painstakingly blended traditional hand-drawn animation and experimental optical effects with new digital hybrids, printed out one frame at time and placed under the camera. In 2012, the three completed short films about a man named Bill were seamlessly combined to create a new feature film. Upon its original release, It’s Such a Beautiful Day was named by many critics as one of the best films of the year. The L.A. Film Critics Association named it runner-up for “Best Animated Film”.

2012, 62 Minutes

"There is a moment in each installment of Don Hertzfeldt's masterful trilogy of animated shorts where you feel something in your chest. It's an unmistakably cardiac event, the kind that great art can elicit when something profound and undeniably true is conveyed about the human condition."
- Steven Pate, THE CHICAGOIST
"There aren't many films where the characters and philosophical ideas stay with you for months afterward, but this is one of them."
- Trilby Beresford, NERDIST
"A truly moving meditation on identity, family and the meaning of life... Hertzfeldt's magnum opus."
- John DeFore, HOLLYWOOD REPORTER
"One of the great outsider artworks of the modern era, at once sympathetic and shocking, beautiful and horrifying, angry and hilarious, uplifting and almost unbearably sad."
- Tom Huddleston, TIME OUT NEW YORK