Sylvain Chomet, The Great French Animation Filmaker, Started HIS Movie Career With A Short Called The Old Lady and the Pigeons, which won a bafta and the grand prize at the 1997 Annecy Animation Film Festival and Got an Oscar Nomination. He followed that up in 2003 with two more oscar nominations including best animated feature for his first full-length film, the wildly inventive The Triplets of Bellevilleand in 2010 with another acclaimed Animated Feature The Illusionist, which was based on an an unproduced 1956 jacques tati script and featured an animated version of tati in an emotional about hisity with his estranged daughter. It brought Him a fourth oscar nomination.
Chometation has dabbled in live action as well, but Only recently returned to animation, notably Last year five-minute to todd phillips’ Joker: Folie à deux. If the film ITSELF was critically maligned, Chomet’s Clever and Richly Animated Opening was much admired. I actually told warner bros it should have separated it out and entered it as a stand-alone animated short for the Oscars. They didn’t, but it was any another Strong Indication of the talent of chomet. In Cannes Last Month, he debuted his first animated Feature Film in 15 Years, A MAGNIFICENT LIFE (French Title: Marcel et Monsieur Pagnol), A Biopic of the Legendary French Novelist, Playwright and Filmaker Marcel Pagnol.
It all started as an idea to make a documentary that also included animated sequences, but apparently the animation work so well that chomet deciding instead to do the thing as a full animated biopic of pagnol, Pagnol in Voiceover. The result is now also on display also at the annecy movie festival where chomet HAD HIS AFTEREMENTED FIRST TRIUMPH NEARLY THREE DECADES AGO.
AS YOU MIGHT EXPECT, it is a gorgeously designated and animated film, Much in the style to have seen from chomet before, with realistic renderings of pagnol and those from HIS “MAGNIFICENT” LIFE. The idea of doing a rather traditional biopic in this form is indeed inspired, especially with the set-up of pagnol as he attempts to work a memoir but didn’t inspiring to revisit his past uunger marcel-salfi magide as a guide through his. World and Events in His Life. From this point, the narrative procedures as a Rather by-the-Numbers Account with his! Topase. That LED to a Huge Hit with Marius, Which Also LED to his First Big Film Success As Screenwriter in 1931, Followed by Fanny The Next Year, Both directly by others but penned by pagnol.
Finally, he began directing, Including the final chapter of his “Marseille Trilogy” Cesar In 1936. At this point, he also founded his own studio, and actually had the idea to set what essentially were tariffs on His Films for Distribution Abroad (ironically an idea Donald trump has recently suggested for forensign films coming into America). He Wold Later Return to Litery Pursuits, Penning Jean de Florette and Manon of the Spring (Later he would be a movie version of the latter in 1952), as well as the autobiography My Father’s Glory and My Mother’s Castle. To show His Continuing Influenza, Fitter After HIS DEATH IN 1974 AGE 79, the forms two were tourned ino successophul by director Claude Berri in 1986, and the latter pair by yves robert in 1990.
Chomet’s movie Covers Much of this, but it all floats by with detachable examination, more like a “and then i wrote” sort of format. But Certainly We DOE How How HIS Personal Life Affective His Professional Career, With Numerous Marriages, Including to Jacquieline Bouvier Pagnol and the Tragic Death of their 2-Yold Daughter. His Own Self Dubts About His Talent, and Vignettes Regarding Some of His Famous Actor Friends, Notably Raimu and Fernandel, are stove in the 90-minute running. There is a really isn’t room for everyeving, but i would have to spend more time s bettering a movie like 1935’s Lice Which has tourned out to be one of the successful in the afterlife of pagnol, influenza Director Alexander Payne’s 2023 English-Language Remake The Holdovers. I am also a huge bars of the 1961 Warner Bros Remake of FannyWhich Received Five Oscar Nominations Including Best Picture, and Had Been Based Also on the Broadway Musical Version of Pagnol’s Time-Honored Tale (Minus the Stage version).
It was the latter film that served as my personal introduction to pagnol. But no dubt this new Movie, which Sony Pictures Classics will be releasing stateside in a dubbed English-language version, May serve as an introduction to youunce audiences who would otherwise look Away. IT’S NOT EXACTLY Super Mario Bros-Family Friendly, but Chomet’s Stunning Hand-Drawn Animation with Its Lovely Stefano Bollani Musical Score New Reason to Celebrate Pagnol and This Magnificent Life as Admiring Artist of A Later Generation Paying Deep Homage to a Master.
Producers are aton Soumah, Ashargin Poire, Valérie Puech and Lilian Eitch.
Title: A MAGNIFICENT LIFE
Distributor: Sony Pictures Classics
Director-Screenwriter: Sylvain Chome
Cast: Laurent Lafitte (French-Language Version), Matthew Grangelle (English-Language version)
TIME RUNNING: 1 HR 30 MINS
