Little Feet

Recalling his work on Little Feet, Alexandre Rockwell said: I rediscovered an aspect of  In the Soup  (1992) when I made Little Feet. It's just the joy of making the goddamn thing. It's that goddamn simple. What stops us from doing anything in our lives, except some weird fear of doing something? It's hard, life's hard. I've just decided I'll make films. I don't give a shit. The money will come. The enthusiasm palpable in this statement also shines through on-screen. But this is the only way it could be if we look at the world of Little Feet from the point of view of children (the director's kids, Lana and Nico Rockwell, play the lead roles). The subject of siblings who run away from a home inhabited by a father who takes no interest in them to embark on an eventful journey enables us to see in Little Feet a variation on the theme of the classic fairy tale. These associations reinforce the feeling wafting over the film of longing for a mother figure, which adds a sense of melancholy to the film's cheerful mood. Like in Hero years earlier, the director proves that he can convincingly portray on-screen youthful sensitivity and curiosity about the world. It's no wonder that Jeannette Catsoulis described Little Feet in her review in "The New York Times"  as a quixotic poem to youthful resourcefulness .