I didn’t even feel that whatever this film was trying to say fell flat, because it didn’t seem to say anything at all. I expected to watch Mahershala Ali play an incredible main character and instead sat through two hours of a plain, unremarkable ‘white saviour’ Christmas movie. I will never not be annoyed about this movie winning an Oscar for Best Picture in 2019. This is a kind and lovely film which I would recommend to anyone. The animation itself is brilliant it mixes 3D animation with stop-motion based on de Saint-Exupéry’s original drawings (which are also included in the movie). It talks about the importance of whimsy and friendship, of freedom and chance. I love Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s book and I love this film adaptation. (She also chases him with a sword.) At the same time there is a level of fourth-wall-breaking: one of the characters is the narrator of the story and decides its ending-but the other characters exercise their own free will and act not as he had planned. This musical fairy tale sees a bear turn into a human and fall in love with the princess, who gets to decide her own fate. Whenever I consider family movies, I think back to An Ordinary Miracle, which both my parents and I watched as children. Try watching it in the original French with subtitles. It is bizarre the visuals combine real actors with stop-motion animation. You can track it down on YouTube.Īudrey Tatou and Romain Duris are amazing in this movie. The battle of wits is illustrated in a bright, fluid, surrealist style and is a perfect example of a classic Russian fairy tale structure. Sahakyants’ Wow! A Talking Fish! is a variation of a tale about the wish-granting goldfish. Some of the best Soviet directors were Georgian and Armenian (check out the 1986 sci-fi cult classic Kin-dza-dza!). Soviet animation showcases numerous diverse, often avant-garde styles and I would highly recommend watching it to broaden your animation horizons and see what children in a different country grew up with. As I am not a native English speaker, I have brought along a few foreign language films to recommend, ones you may not have heard of. I love highly stylised movies that act as colourful representations of their genre or mix the medium they use in a particular way. My family goes to the cinema every other week, if we are not already watching something at home.
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