Animated Film 'Tangles' Premieres at Cannes on May 14, Drawing on Alzheimer's Stories
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Updated · Deadline · May 13
Animated Film 'Tangles' Premieres at Cannes on May 14, Drawing on Alzheimer's Stories
7 articles · Updated · Deadline · May 13
Tangles will make its world premiere as a Cannes Special Screening on May 14, bringing Sarah Leavitt’s memoir about a daughter confronting her mother’s Alzheimer’s to the festival.
Leah Nelson and producers Lauren Miller Rogen and Vicky Patel said the project was driven by their own family experience with dementia and Alzheimer’s, shaping the film’s focus on caregivers and memory rather than medical explanation.
The 90-minute feature adapts Leavitt’s graphic memoir into a more cinematic visual style, with French illustrator Manddy Wyckens leading animation while Nelson avoided depicting the disease from inside the mother’s mind.
Abbi Jacobson voices Sarah in a cast that includes Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Bryan Cranston and Seth Rogen; the film will also compete at Annecy next month as Charades shops international rights in Cannes.
Lauren Miller Rogen, whose mother was diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer’s at 55, said the film aims to reach the millions of young caregivers whose work often goes unseen.
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