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Not Without My Handbag

Summary

Not Without My Handbag is a 1993 British stop-motion animated comedy horror short film created by animator Boris Kossmehl at Aardman Animations.[1] The film is about a deceased aunt who forgets to take a proper handbag on her journey to Hell.[2]

Not Without My Handbag
Directed byBoris Kossmehl
Written byBoris Kossmehl
Andrea Friedrich
Produced byChristopher Moll
StarringGeraldine McEwan
Andrea Friedrich
Alain Debray
Robert Booth
CinematographyAndy MacCormack
Fred Reed
Edited byDavid McCormick
Music byJulian Nott
Production
companies
Distributed byChannel Four Television Corporation
Release date
14 November 1993
Running time
12 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

Plot edit

A girl lives with her aunt in a small house. One day, the aunt gets late for a washing machine payment. When reading the contract, she finds that “on non-payment of installments, the contractee shall go to Hell without further notice.” She makes a phone call for a devil who lives in Hell and when he arrives, he kills her by giving her a heart attack. The girl witnesses her getting dropped to Hell, and then puts her aunt's dead body under a grave she had made.

Meanwhile, while falling down the yellow spiral that leads to Hell, the aunt feels that she has forgotten something and starts to return to find out what it is, avoiding the devil. When returning as a skeleton, she explains to her niece that she forgot to take her treasured accessory, a proper handbag.

That night, the devil returns and transforms into a handbag when eating the handbag. He causes havoc around the house: he attacks and eats a mouse, and raids the refrigerator, until the girl catches him, but the devil kidnaps her in the washing machine.

The next morning, the aunt looks for her handbag and she finds the devil torturing her niece in the washing machine and says that the monster is a very cheap imitation. The devil says he will give her a cheap imitation and starts dragging her to Hell again, but the girl stops him with a bakery’s worth of food. The devil eats the cakes and pastries and grows big and fat. The girl feeds him a chocolate éclair and the devil explodes, releasing the handbag, which lands in front of its owner’s feet. The aunt says she would visit anytime her niece wants, telling her to remember to always read the small prints before she buys and also to avoid any cheap imitations. She and the girl bid each other farewell.

Cast edit

  • Geraldine McEwan as The Aunt
  • Andrea Friedrich as The Girl
  • Alain Debray as The Devil / The Handbag
  • Robert Booth as Newsreader

Critical reception edit

German review site AllesFilm said Not Without My Handbag was "one of the best Aardman short films", and complemented its humour, visuals, deranged tone, and "genius fun".[3]

References edit

  1. ^ MUBI
  2. ^ "Western Animation: Not Without My Handbag". TV Tropes. Retrieved 5 February 2015.
  3. ^ "Filmkritik Aardman - Not without my handbag". www.allesfilm.com. Archived from the original on 2006-01-09.

External links edit

  • Not Without My Handbag at IMDb