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Princes and Princesses
a film by Michel Ocelot
"A wonderfully imaginative collection of fairy tales."
- Moira MacDonald, SEATTLE TIMES
From Michel Ocelot, the internationally acclaimed animator of Kirikou
and the Wild Beast, comes Princes and Princesses, a sumptuous and elegant
film of silhouette animation that is sure to delight audiences of all ages.
In an old derelict theater, an art teacher and two students create six
ravishing epic tales of love and adventure, each involving a prince or a
princess. After coming up with an idea, they feed it to a special machine,
and are hence magically transformed into the characters of the story they
have devised.
Created using a special style of cut-out animation, similar in spirit
to Lotte Reiniger's mesmerizing The Adventures of Prince Achmed (1926),
Princes and Princesses uses black-silhouetted characters performing action
against back-lit, enchantingly colored backdrops. Although the moving images
may seem simple, the settings display extraordinary versatility, allowing
Ocelot to model styles as diverse as ancient Egyptian landscapes to
traditional Japanese art.
France 2000 Animation 70 min. Color Full-frame
In French with optional English subtitles
PRINCES AND PRINCESSES
written and directed by MICHEL OCELOT
voices ARLETTE MIRAPE, PHILIPE CHEYTION, YVES BARSACQ and FRANCOIS VOISIN
original music CHRISTIAN MAIRE production design BENEDICTE GALUP
editing by DOMINIQUE LEFEVER, MICHELE PEJU and ANITA VILFRID produced by
DIDIER BRUNIER and JEAN-FRANCOIS LAGUIONIE
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