Please, we need a more. That so amazing. Çokgüzel! Danke!

When I first saw this video, I had never heard the Japanese theme song of The Rose Of Versailles and this was a wonderful way to learn about it. Every time I get to the end, there is so much harmony between the animation and the music that I get shivers. Beautiful work! /sorry for the bad english/

What I’m most impressed by is how weighty everything feels. The weight distribution and movement feels so natural

1:20 i love the meta joke

This is one of my all time favourite animated short films, i keep coming back because of how well it was created

This is so good. It also gave me nightmares. But like it’s still worth it oh my godddddd

What's the audio on 0:08 ?

I've watched this masterpiece a several days ago now and, I must admit, it got completely stuck in my mind and didn't dare to leave it - not even for an hour, as I found myself rewatching it over and over again. So I absolutely must pour out all the complex feelings, emotions and reflections it had given me, everything about it is just SO perfect, heart-wrenching, detailed and thought-out!!! I love both the little things and the overall, the shading, the endless sound of rain, even if quiet, the color palette being so gloomy and cool, as if I could feel the coldness myself! and from the beggining I love how the outside looks just so cold, filled with apprehenshion and the rain, something in it really gives me chills... and the opposite of it should be this room full of light and warmth, but somehow... it doesn't feel safe either, it's just as dreadful as the foul outside, like the jacobins inside know that the four walls aren't really a shield that matters anymore. And then it always catches my attencion how Robespierre presses his pen against the paper, as if he begun signing automatically and then the thoughts about what he's doing flooded him and then weighed on him, causing his stillnes and pressing the pen out of tension inside him. And then that gloomy look at the guillotine, and its shadow being above him, foreshadowing his fate but also symbolizing all the guilt hovering over him. And then Saint-Just magically appears. I cannot describe enough how much I think about those words "To think we made that" that I believe can relate to both the guillotine AND the Declaration making such a GREAT contrast - the guillotine, the tool that brings death on one side, and the Declaration, that should have brought freedom, on another, somehow both made by the same people, at the same time... to think that THEY, who made the Declaration also made the guillotine, like, how did they even ended up THAT way, first wanting to free the people, then killing them ruthlessly... And all of this realization contained in this light "oh" of Robespierre (how I just love it, OH MY GOD!!!) Also those silhouettes of the people below like ghosts, wandering pointlessly, just as the jacobins have lost their hopes, left to simply wander around; but Saint-Just still trying to persuade Robespierre to have hope!! and the withdrawal in his voice when he says "I don't want to sign"... Did I already mention that I also absolutely love the voice acting??? the "What do you mean?" still being firm but also starting to reveal the worried tone!! then one of my favourite parts - the sorrowful muttering of Robespierre, the sound scarcely leaving his lips but it still shows SO much emotions, how he disdains and condemns himself after what he has done, how he believes he has become more of an animal than a human, an useless meat, but still having to give something to the people, even if it's merely his body, now only being worth putting his head under the butcher's knife. Then Saint-Just pulling him out of this trance to the reality that is no better, but still trying to give him any consolation he can.(how he holds his hand.....) and I also really like how Robespierre still turns his pen, not sure if to obey, like we can almost see his thougts and pondering through his actions!! AND MY ANOTHER FAVOURITE PART, when he pictures himself as a rotten (therefore not worth saving, "I wish you would leave me beind") lamb, the flies every time making me uneasy but I also think it just makes everything so real, with all the filth in the arms of the "pure" angel, still trying to be the sacrifice in spite of being rotten... Then again he returns to reality, this time interrupted by the beggining of the fight, staring at the gun left by Saint-Just... For some reason Robespierre's silhouette seen outside of the window also is just.... just heart-wrenching, I don't even know why, I just always got this feeling that the world is so, so cold, and perhaps it's that Robespierre seems so alone in this shot... How then he stands in front of the Declaration, turning his head to reveal an animal's skull, like he doesn't perceive himself just as an animal anymore, but also as a dead one. And the beautifully portrayed realization and then dread and helplessness at the same time on Saint-Just's face, I love the idea of multiple panels to show the rapidness of thinking and emotions and then how the "Robespierre" is messy at the end, as if the one who wrote it couldn't make it in time, just how Saint-Just couldn't, his shout also broken at the end, like the sign. I love the two "It didn't work", the second being muttered (I think) because of Robespierre shooting his jaw, not being able to speak propely, if at all. I believe there's also an ambiguity, for the words can reference Robespierre's attempt but also the overall of the revolution, that their ideas didn't work, resulting only in suffering. I also noticed how there's two drawings of Robespierre's face covered in blood, but the second has tracks of tears, whilst the first doesn't... I really, truly love all those details and that there's so much meaning put behind everything, the emotions being so raw, just as if I WAS there, when it was happening, like the french revolution suddenly became so ... close. Yet I still cannot describe just how... MUCH is this video, really, I will be thinking about it (and the whole revolution as well I guess) for many days more. Thank you for your work. It is truly incredible and touching.

I absolutely adore this video, and this simply must be one of my favorite CalArts short films of all time. Unfortunately I cannot watch it on this account -cough cough, age restriction- Either way, this is simply a joy and a tasteful artwork that I am sad to be unable to enjoy in the future.

wauw! LOOOOVE your style🔥🔥

This is absolutely amazing. I am endlessly impressed by this. I cannot overstate my love for this and I really mean it. It is so good.

R.I.P

Those that live by the guillotine, dies by the guillotine

This so underrated i love every single thing down to the smallest detail !!!!

HOLY FUCK WHY DID I TAKE SO LONG TO WATCH THIS?? I HAD THIS IN MY WATCH LATER FOR SO LONG?? It was awesome. Captivating.. actually had my heart stop a few times.. 😭

aah beautiful !!!!!

this is incredible

WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS I LOVE THIS SO MUCH ITS SO BEAUTIFUL

Incroyable ❤

this is......... kinda looking gay bruv

in constant awe of everything you do. truly a masterpiece.

My wife likes to watch the CalArts films every year. I so often find them boring, normal derivative shorts.. This is absolutely incredible. I love the double entendre of "It didn't work", and the visual message of Robespierre believing he no longer has value as his whole self but the people should break him, and his ideas, down to take what parts they need from him.. I'm watching your career with avid interest.

the voice acting in films such as these put me through so much emotions. amazing work, janelle.

It´s a piety that figures of the French Revolution don´t get the attention they deserve - a consequence of the post-WW2 anglo-saxon/American cultural hegemony we live in today. They have mostly been reduced to footnotes that serve as a background to Napoleon´s rise to power. Not just Robespierre and those around them, but other important figures and other factions from the French Revolution. In our current world, where a cynical status-quo neo-liberalism rules under a thin rope in danger of being cut by the new forces of Reaction it helped create through it´s incompetence, the idealistic zeal of Robespierre and Saint-Just are needed more than ever.

The idea Robespierre might not have wanted to sign an order to save himself, because it would have betrayed the very ideals he tried to enshrine might be a testament to his personal convictions. I read somewhere when it was asked who should sign the order, Robespierre softly replied, "the people." Unfortunately we will never really have a clear picture of what transpired on that day in Paris.

Robespierre não se suicidou, ele morreu na guilhotina.

I've watched this like 6 times but only just realised that at 2:08 Robespierre's skin starts breaking from his jaw! such a neat detail that I had completely overlooked :0

He was a megalomaniac and they shot him in the face he didn't shoot himself

I was always sure, French revolution was made by Englishmen. Here's the proof. They speak English in private.

F*cking pidor.

The doctor's report of 9 Thermidor is not very consistent with a self-inflicted gunshot (no mention of powder burns and the wound is pretty small to be the result of virtual point blank range).

Gorgeous film, thank you for sharing. Have a wonderful day.

Bravo pour ce trait, ces couleurs très esthétiques, et élégantes. Bravo aussi pour le choix de ce moment de la vie de Robespierre, bravo enfin car tu suscites par ce film beaucoup de commentaires très riches. Merci à toi Vive Janelle😊

This is INSANEE

The Jacobin ideology of which Robespierre is only the first prototype has slaughtered millions

Thats a really good animation

Robespierre scheiterte weil die notwendige Maßnahmen nicht durchgeführt wurden. Im Konvent saßen Mitglieder die selbst Dreck am stecken hatten. Die Angst dass es denen an den Kragen gehen würde war Grund genug um Robespierre und die anderen zu beseitigen. Robespierre sagte, es gibt eine „Verschwörung gegen die öffentliche Freiheit“, deren Mitglieder im Wohlfahrtsausschuss selbst, im Konvent und in dessen Sicherheitsausschuss säßen." Interpretationen sind ja allemal erlaubt, ich saß nicht dabei um Beweise vortragen zu können, und bin auf meinem Verstand angewiesen. Wer hatte Interesse dass der Revolution scheitern solle ??? Ich sage, die 10 Gebote würden eigentlich vollkommen ausreichen um ein Land vernünftig zu regieren. Ich kenne nur eine kleine Gruppe die das auf keinen Fall möchte, die Politiker und die Milliardäre welche die Zügel immer noch in die Hand halten. Nicht die Gerechtigkeit, sondern das Geld regiert die Welt.

I hate the Repablic glory too the last emperor of france and rightfull ruler napoleon the third

Spain is better then france becouse they stayed fatefull god and restored their Monarchy too their rightfull throne

Thank Bonaparte for saving france from insaneity

Hard to feel sorry for Robespierre, he was a lunatic just like all the others, Danton, Marat, Saint-Just, Hebert. But unfortunately the history of the French Revolution has been distorted and most people ignore the disaster that it brought upon France and Europe.

Few men have deserved their ruin as richly as this ice cold fanatic. He sent better men, and women, to their deaths without the smallest pity.

I'm flabbergasted. That's just it.

But wasn't he actually guilotined? Besides, as far as I know he was a genocidal monster, so anything but worth praising

This is simply amazing no other words

robespierre died screaming. killed by his own creation. in terror, by terror. the watching crowd was jubilant.

I like the shot of the dead lamb being held in the arms of an angel, cool reference to the pieta and really nice depiction of Robespierre as a sacrificial lamb

This was exquisite, an absolute masterpiece, I’ve rarely seen anything like it! However, I do have one minor historical critique. As someone who has loaded, primed, and fired black powder weapons, the sound effects used for the gun being cocked and fired really stood out to me as incorrect. The cocking is decent, but it still sounds a bit too akin to the “cha-chingk” of modern semi-autos being cocked, rather than the more singular “click” of a black powder pistol’s hammer. But the sound effect for the firing was really problematic, not simply because it is distinguishable as a modern gun’s shot sound (as opposed to the very distinctive “crack-poom” of black powder guns), but because after it fires you can distinctly here a shell casing hit the ground. This is an issue because shell cartridged bullets did not exist at this time in history, and would not become commonplace for more than 70 years after the death of Robespierre, and of course the gun depicted is clearly a black powder pistol, so it wouldn’t have had any ejection unit for a shell anyways. Not trying to be pedantic (even though I know I am being a total nerd), and I cannot stress how completely and utterly beautiful and amazing I found this animation (honesty it more deserves to be called a short film rather than just an animation), but I thought I’d just leave a bit of input for future reference if they plan to do any more shorts set in this era

The is the version of what happened on the 27th of July 1794 by Mr Aulard, a french historian. It's completely wrong, cause that would have meant Robespierre had to take several hours (2-3 hour) doubting like this just to sign the document lmao It's a shame, the art is really incredible, but what it tells is the wrong interpretation of history.

Amazing