Keep your hand poised over the tissue box while you watch Versa (now streaming on Disney+), a profoundly heartfelt animated short that’s just as heartrending. It’s written and directed by Malcon Pierce, a Disney animator whose credits include Moana, the Frozen movies, Encanto and many of the studio’s recent non-Pixar films – and who went through a grievous real-life event that spurred him to make this beautiful tearjerker of a film.
VERSA: STREAM IT OR SKIP IT?
The Gist: There is no dialogue in Versa, only imagery. Colorful, gorgeous, poignant imagery. The unnamed man and woman characters in this film are both enormous and tiny – living in a rainbow-colored galaxy, they’re dwarfed by ethereal nebulae, but they’re large enough to cup a planet in their hands like a captured firefly. The man approaches the woman to show her the teensy Saturn-like celestial body
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