Canax-French fairy tale A small black Frenchwoman of Kanak origin (the Kanaks are the indigenous peoples of Melanesia living in New Caledonia) with the courier Orel and a galaxy of great personalities of the Belle Epoch try to solve the mystery of the abduction of little girls in Paris.
Franco-Belgian-German animated film from Michel Oselo, in which we have already watched “Azur and Azmar”. This time, the animation is stunning. I have never seen such beauty of performance. The new artistic effect is that Oselo embeds animation into retouched photographs of Parisian sites and monuments.
The action takes place during the Belle Epoque in Paris.
Together with Dilili, a little girl from the human zoo, we meet or hear about such great people as:
- Louise Michele – revolutionary, teacher, writer, poet, feminist
- Marie Curie - Polish and French experimental scientist (physicist, chemist), teacher, public figure, the first woman - Nobel laureate in history and the first twice Nobel laureate in history
- Emma Calvet – opera singer (soprano)
- Marcel Proust – writer, novelist and poet, novelist, representative of modernism in literature
- Reynaldo Ahn – composer, pianist, music critic, conductor and orchestra leader, one of the most famous musicians of the Belle Epoch, Proust’s beloved.
- Louis Pasteur – chemist and microbiologist, member of the French Academy
- Colette - writer, one of the stars of the Belle Epoch, member of the Goncourt Academy since 1945
- Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec - post-impressionist artist from the count family of Toulouse-Lautrecoff, master of graphics and advertising poster
- Auguste Rodin – sculptor, recognized as one of the creators of modern sculpture
Camilla Claudel – sculptor and graphic artist
- Sarah Bernard is an actress who at the beginning of the XX century was called “the most famous actress in history”.
- Alberto Santos-Dumont, a Brazilian aviation pioneer, designed, built and tested the first practically usable controlled balloon, made Europe’s first public airplane flight.
Ferdinand von Zeppelin – German inventor and military figure, builder of the first airships
- Amedeo Modigliani - Italian artist and sculptor, one of the most famous artists of the late XIX - early XX century, representative of expressionism
- Pablo Picasso – Spanish and French artist, sculptor, graphic artist, theater artist, ceramist and designer
- Pierre Auguste Renoir - painter, graphic artist and sculptor, one of the main representatives of impressionism
- Gustave Eiffel – engineer, specialist in the design of metal structures
- Claude Debussy – composer, leading representative of musical impressionism
- Bruan Aristide – French poet, chansonnier, comedian and cabaret owner
- Chocolate Clown - Cuban black exotic star of the French show Belle ?poque
- Auguste and Louis Lumiere – the founders of the French film industry and filmmaking
The cartoon will appeal to everyone who loves Paris and art.
Along with the pluses, there are two ugly minuses. First of all, the film is very feminist. This is the first picture I've seen of feminism in the brain sticking out of all the cracks, and it's the plot. Second, Oselo cannot stop curtseying humiliated and oppressed blacks, constantly saying they are not worse, but better than Europeans. For these two minuses, the cartoon could already be buried, but still visually it is matchless, culturally beautiful and I just love Paris.
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