It’s the year 2015 A.D. Every kid film is crossed by somewhat solemn American franchises and both Happy Meal and Oedipus complexes (ah, the guilt.) All of them? No! The first 3D animated film of Asterix and his friend Obelix (and Dogmatix, of course) adapts the irreducible The Mansions of the Gods to that medium, which has been rather clumsy...
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It’s quite possible that neither Dante, nor Hades, nor Orpheus, are connected at all with the life of a bunny family. But since there must be some explanation about their lives, Esben Toft Jacobsen manages to inquire about the vital transit of these sweet animals that have long ears and eyes filled with tenderness. A winged and feathered king...
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If the struggle between novelty and tradition marks the relationship between a family’s generations, it has turned particularly intense in the case of young Malva –as up to date as she is with social networks and techno gadgets– and her grandmother Lalilas, who knows better than anyone that sharing with her granddaughter the knowl...
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Eccentric pop artist Takashi Murakami, who is known for selling hentai statues at millionaire prizes, has plunged into cinema with this adorable, hallucinatory, and frenetic mix of animation and live action. Masashi, who has just lost his father in Fukushima, moves in with his mother, thus becoming the new kid in school. The event coincides with th...
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Celebrating the re-release of Moomin, Neil Gaiman defined it as “a lost treasure that finally surfaces: one of the sweetest and strangest comic books that have ever been written or drawn. A surreal masterpiece. Truthfully.” The moomins are a bunch of beautiful things (yes, things), a hyper-white species of biped hippos that mix the inci...
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An ultra-violent giant willing to do “that” (don’t ask) to the man who sent him to jail... until a dose of Reversicine persuades him to do his cleaning and shopping. A super villain with little mental health but neutron bombs to spare; who speaks in an Argentine accent and turns even the most simple phrases into palindromes, the m...
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The Phantom Tollbooth is the only feature-length film that Chuck Jones directed. Based on Norton Juster’s beloved 1961 children’s book, it contains some of Jones’s most beautiful artwork. In the film, Milo’s discovery of a tollbooth with a magical portal catapults him into the Kingdom of Wisdom, leaving behind his dreary lon...
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In this charming and fanciful animated tale from South Korean director Chang Hyung-yun, a broken-hearted musician, Kyung-Chun, has been turned into a milk cow. That by itself would be bad enough: He’s also forced to outrun the nefarious Mr. Oh, who’s determined to steal and sell his liver. And in an even more confusing turn of events, K...
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at Studio Ghibli –that he founded thirty years ago– will be a little less regretted if that creative factory keeps developing projects like The Tale of the Princess Kaguya. A fascinating, delicate, splendid, and very powerful syncretism of drawing, color and animation techniques, the millennial tale of the princess born from a bamboo sp...
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