# animate! › Films › Dear Nelson by Sarah Cox › synopses

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Discovery terms: 2000s animation, live action and animation, digital animation, love, long-distance relationships, letters, literary adaptation, filmmaker, animation director

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**Dear Nelson** a film by Sarah Cox

2001, 5 min 32 sec

### animate! synopsis

Algren and no De Beauvoir makes Nelson a sad boy in these letters from America. An affair to remember, with distance – initially – no object (plane mailing in fact) in these continental correspondences, monochrome messages that style the times and texts of greats.

### one sentence synopsis

A short film based on letters written by Simone de Beauvoir.

### short synopsis

A short film based on letters written by Simone de Beauvoir in Paris to Nelson Algren in Chicago between 1947 – 1956.

The film takes five moments from their long distance relationship and charts the emotional progression from heady excitement to cool detachment.

**Dear Nelson** film, stills and other materials © Sarah Cox 2001