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Excellent, Without a doubt!!

Best movie ever!

In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

This short was nominated for an Oscar for Animated Short. There will be spoilers: This short starts out with the titular character standing on a train station platform with all the baggage of a human life with her. She suddenly winds up on board a train with said baggage in the strangest train compartment possible. Robert Bloch would be impressed. A strange chess game and the creepiest tennis player ever round out the background to Madame's journey into a nightmare.Madame recovers from an enforced "sleep" to find herself in an otherwise empty compartment after having a "dream" or "nightmare" which may or may not have been imagined. She winds up out in the corridor and goes deeper into the strangeness. Ultimately, this leads to a fascinating and visually beautiful, if predictable ending.This has given me more than a few shudders and is rather creepy but is also visually fascinating and exceptional in its detail. The plot is relatively simple and a bit obvious in spots. But it's an excellent example of stop motion animation and very memorable.A production of the National Film Board of Canada, this short is well worth watching and most recommended.

Uhh I really don't know what I just watched. I was flipping through channels and landed on a movie channel inbetween 2 movies. In that 15 minute time slot this show began. I saw the animation and was instantly compelled. But then I stuck around and things just got weird. The more and more I watched the stranger and stranger it became. Its very creepy.Overall though I say it was pretty good. There was some very strange moments in it that make your heart race and your stomach turn mostly because the animation is as well creepy. So you don't like really creepy things don't watch this. NEVER WATCH ON HALUCINGENICS!!!

Directed by Chris Lavis and Maciek Szczerbowski, "Madame Tutli-Putli" is a somewhat groundbreaking stop-motion animation. The macabre film, which reportedly took over five years to produce, revolves around Madame Tutli-Putli, a frail looking woman who boards a midnight train. She's shown carrying a lot of extra baggage, both physical and psychological, the latter of which may or may not play a part in the bizarre nightmare which she experiences during her midnight journey. It's a nightmare rife with strange sights, grotesque visions and a plot in which freakish train robbers sneak aboard the train, cut open a man's stomach and steals his kidneys. Whether these events are really happening, are a nightmare, or are manifestations of the woman's warped personality – her misreading of real but far less sinister events – is left entirely up to the audience. Figuring out exactly what's going on is part of the film's charm.It's technique rather than content which elevates "Madame Tutli-Putli", though. The directors, for example, used composited human eyes, which lend their characters a creepy, life-like quality. More jaw dropping is the film's second half, which essentially invents a kind of stop-motion "shaky-cam". Stop-motion, of course, is usually a rigid affair, with stiff camera work. But here the film-makers have recreated an extremely free-form, almost cinema-verite quality. This must have been a nightmare to shoot, Szczerbowski's camera needing constant micro set-ups and micro adjustments. No wonder the film took five years to create. Harryhausen and Aardman never attempted anything quite like this.8/10 – Worth one viewing.

NOTE: CONTAINS STORY THEORIZATION & SPOILERSFunny summary I know, I just started to really watch short movies today. Stop-motion in general, this was the second I watched. First I'll say this is the most visually stunning stop-motion film you will ever see to date! The way it is filmed and the characters move, it's like they had motion captured actors and put clay on them! The music was very moody and added great to the emotion of the film. As far as the story goes, I thought it was pretty moving. You see, I think that this character had a real fear of death (Like most of us) I think that the muggers or thieves if you want to call them were body snatchers. It was displayed in the scene when the tennis player gets one of his organs cut out. So, when she was running through the train at the end toward the bright light. Well, I think you see were I'm getting at now. Also, the moth that turns into an angelic being at the end. It just makes sense that she was also killed by the body snatchers and died and went to her afterlife. It was moving for me, and I don't think it's Neo-Nazistic. I rate it an 9 for artistic approach, music & emotional story.