"Memoir of a Snail isn’t trying to trick you. It just wants to crawl steadily, slowly, and warmly into your heart."—Robert Daniels, RogerEbert.com
"As hilarious as it is heart-wrenching—frequently within the same scene."—Wendy Ide, Screen International
"There’s an ingenuousness and innocence to Memoir of a Snail, a family-entertainment approachability that belies a strange intensity."—Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian
A Blue Carpet Dash Film
In 1970s Australia, Grace's life is troubled by misfortune and loss. After their mother dies during pregnancy, she and her twin brother, Gilbert, are raised by their paraplegic-alcoholic former juggler father, Percy. Despite a life filled with love, tragedy strikes anew when Percy passes away in his sleep. The siblings are forcibly separated and thrust into separate homes. Gilbert finds himself in the care of a cruel evangelical family, while Grace, grappling with intense loneliness, gradually withdraws into her shell, much like the snails she adopts. As the years pass, and despite new disappointments and sorrows, a glimmer of hope emerges when she strikes up an enduring friendship with an elderly eccentric woman called Pinky.
