these European animation schools never cease to amaze me and this is probably one of the more delightful ones I have had a chance to see in a long time. The acting and characterizations of the father and son pair is never overacted, as can be the pitfall of so many similar stories these days.
If I do have a gripe, it is with the ending, which just proves how hard they are to come up with for all of us. I write these notes a couple of hours after viewing the film and already don't remember more about the ending except that I felt it was weak.
But everything else preceding it was just superb; the scenery and how it never clashed with the action, the color palette and the acting -- all done in such a mature style (oh, the music I didn't care for that much, but nothing drastic -- just didn't match the originality of the imagery). Thanks, Sven.
EDIT: To the format: I am thrilled to see some breaking away from the classical film/TV formats, if for no other reason than to just prove that the Internet proves to be THEE venue of personal preferences and originality. If it's an up and down story -- let the format be up and down!

How
fitting.
