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French Film Festival · 2019

French Film Festival 2019

Animation

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4 films · 3 reviews

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Dilili In Paris (Dilili A Paris)

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Michel Ocelot's combination of live film, photo-realistic images and animation brings out the magic of Paris as if were being seen for the first time.

Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
With the help of her friend, a delivery boy, young Dilili from New Caledonia investigates a spate of mysterious kidnappings of young girls that is plaguing the Paris of the Belle Epoque.

(Country: France, Germany, Belgium; Year: 2018; Director: Michel Ocelot; Writer: Michel Ocelot; Stars: Prunelle Charles-Ambron, Enzo Ratsito, Natalie Dessay)

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I Lost My Body (J'ai perdu mon corps)

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The fingerprints left behind by us an upon us as we go through life are considered by Jérémy Clapin's animated feature debut.

Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
A cut-off hand escapes from a dissection lab with one crucial goal: to get back to its body. As it scrambles through the pitfalls of Paris, it remembers its life with the young man it was once attached to… until they met Gabrielle.

(Country: France; Year: 2019; Director: Jérémy Clapin; Writer: Jérémy Clapin, Guillaume Laurant; Stars: Voices of, Victoire Du Bois, Patrick d'Assumçao, Hakim Faris)

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The Swallows Of Kabul (Les Hirondelles De Kaboul)

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Visually arresting and emotionally engaging.

Richard Mowe · 3 out of 5
Summer 1998 - Kabul under Taliban rule. Zunaira and Mohsen are young and in love. Despite the daily violence and misery, they hope for a better future. One day, a foolish gesture causes life to take an irrevocable turn.

(Country: France; Year: 2019; Director: Zabou Breitman, Eléa Gobbé-Mévellec; Writer: Zabou Breitman, based on the book by Yasmina Khadra; Stars: Hiam Abbass, Zita Hanrot, Swann Arlaud, Simon Abkarian)

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Yellowbird

A ladybird hatches a plan to help a frightened bird.

(Country: France; Year: 2014; Director: Christian De Vita; Writer: Antoine Barraud, Cory Edwards, Guilhem Lesaffre; Stars: Dakota Fanning, Seth Green, Christine Baranski, Danny Glover, Elliott Gould, Jim Rash, Richard Kind, Yvette Nicole Brown, Christopher L. Parson)