this reminds me of a foreign,non-musical and more grim version of little shop of horrors; Quite unique, and very creative (visually) foreign fairy tale; Interesting tale that provides the solution on a fairy tale book
Also reminds of Pan's Labyrinth scene where the young girl gets that piece of bark/wood thing and soaks in a bowl of milk and puts in under the bed;Eventually the bark begins to live and gets better(like her mom);the bark starts moving and becomes animated until it unfortunate demise,later on ,as the bark gets discoverd under the bed;This movie stars out as a narration of a fairy tale(fairy tale from a book)with a much more tragic and emotional human story compared to little otik grimly funny twisted tale of an ending