Identify: Premier Automne

Premier Automne is an 3D Computer-Generated Imagery (CGI) animation about a star-crossed love story between summer and winter by French animators, Carlos de Carvalho and Aude Danset. I like the well-established setting of the story and the personification of winter and summer. Abel is winter who freezes and kills everything that he touched while Apolline is summer who brings life to her surroundings.

The film does not only tell a love story, but also made us question about the relationship of life and death, for instance, Apolline runs away from Abel because he took the life of her dog as he touched it because she is scared of death just like many of us. Life and death cannot co-exist. However, the film concludes as Apolline runs around a tree with Abel, which leaves me a question: will I be able accept death as it is?