« Jan Svankmajer's stop-motion work uses familiar, unremarkable objects in a way which is deeply disturbing. The first film of his that I saw was Alice, and I was extremely unsettled by the image of an animated rabbit which had real fur and real eyes. His films always leave me with mixed feelings, but they all have moments that really get to me; moments that evoke the nightmarish spectre of seeing commonplace things coming unexpectedly to life. » Dans « The 10 best animated films of all time », article de Terry Gilliam dans The Guardian le 27 avril 2001. Page consultée le 18 mars 2012.
« Svankmajer has said that in this film, objects “act out, in condensed form, the process we are witnessing in this particular stage of civilisation, the passage from differentiation to uniformity”. » Dans « Re-animating the Lost Objects d’Childhood and the Everyday: Jan Svankmajer », article de Dirk de Bruyn dans la revue Senses of Cinema, n°14, juin 2001. [lire en ligne]
