Dilili in Paris
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| Directed by | Michel Ocelot |
| Written by | Michel Ocelot |
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| Edited by | Patrick Ducruet |
| Music by | Gabriel Yared |
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Running time | 95 minutes |
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| Language | French[2] |
Dilili in Paris French: Dilili à Paris is a 2018[1] French, German and Belgian[2] computer-animated period adventure film written and directed by Michel Ocelot, with pre-production by Studio O and animation production by Mac Guff, about a Kanak girl investigating a mystery in Paris in the Belle Époque. It stars the voices of Prunelle Charles-Ambron, Enzo Ratsito and Natalie Dessay as Emma Calvé in the original, French-language version.
The film had an invitation-only world premiere on June 11, 2018 as the opening ceremony feature, and its public premiere on June 12, at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival[1] before being released in cinemas on October 10 in France, on October 24 in Belgium and in 2019 in Germany.[2] It won the César Award for Best Animated Feature at the 44th César Awards.[3]
It has been licensed for distribution in the United States and English-speaking Canada by Samuel Goldwyn Films[4] (having already been released in Quebec by Axia Films),[2] who will release it in cinemas in 2019.[4]
Production
Development
Director, writer and designer Michel Ocelot has said that two starting points for the production were his desire to create a work set in Paris, and an originally separate desire to create one on the topic of male suppression and abuse of women and girls.
He chose to combine these in a narrative which takes place in the Belle Époque, roughly in the decade from 1900 to 1909, a period when several historical firsts for women in France were made.
The film depicts some of the many notable historical figures who were often present in the city at the time, and features a fictionalised version of the opera singer Emma Calvé as a supporting character. However, it simultaneously intentionally diverges from real history (and, as the director readily admits, laws of science) in its metaphorical main plot and inclusion of retrofuturist technology influenced by various works of Jules Verne and The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux.
Animation production
The 3D rendering style continues in that used in Azur & Asmar, in that the fabric, hair and so on of the three-dimensional models is rendered as solid colours with no shading, though differs in that the characters' bodies (which in Azur & Asmar were shaded from a fixed angle, in a style inspired by late medieval art)[5] are defined with a tracing effect developed from that used in Kirikou and the Men and Women.
The scenery incorporates photographs, taken by Ocelot over four years, of structures which survive from the depicted era or earlier, including the Palais Garnier, Bouillon Racine, Maxim's and the Paris sewers and objects from the collections of the Musée d'Orsay, Musée de l'École de Nancy, Musée Carnavalet, Musée Rodin, Musée du quai Branly – Jacques Chirac and Musée Marmottan Monet, which are used directly as two dimensional-elements or for texture mapping rather than as reference material. Others were recreated in three dimensions, including the Eiffel Tower, which was based directly on architectural drawings from Gustave Eiffel's company. The digital library of the Bibliothèque nationale de France, Gallica, was used for research and for two dimensional-empherea that were incorporated directly.[6]
Unlike Ocelot's two previous feature films, Tales of the Night and Kirikou and the Men and Women, Dilili has not been released in stereoscopic 3D.
Accolades
At the 4th International Historical Fiction Film Festival, held in Plaisance-du-Touch in September 2018, Dilili won the Press Award for Best Feature Film.[7] At the 44th César Awards, presented in February 2019, it won the César Award for Best Animated Feature.[3]
References
- ^ a b c "2018 Programme: Screening Events". Annecy International Animation Film Festival. 2018. Retrieved February 25, 2019.
- ^ a b c d e f "Dilili in Paris (2016)". uniFrance. Retrieved 2019-02-25.
- ^ a b "Awards 2019". Académie des arts et techniques du cinéma. 2019. Retrieved February 25, 2019.
- ^ a b Aguilar, Carlos (February 12, 2019). "Michel Ocelot's Dilili In Paris Acquired by Samuel Goldwyn Films For U.S. Distribution". Cartoon Brew. Retrieved February 25, 2019.
- ^ Leroy, Elodie (January 9, 2008). "Interview : Michel Ocelot (Azur et Asmar)". DVDRama (in French). Retrieved October 5, 2008.
- ^ "Dilili dans Gallica. Interview de Michel Ocelot". Le blog de Gallica (in French). Bibliothèque nationale de France. November 22, 2018. Retrieved March 1, 2019.
- ^ "Le palmarès de cette quatrième édition" (in French). Festival International du Film de Fiction Historique. October 4, 2018. Retrieved March 4, 2019.
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External links
- Official web page at Wild Bunch International Sales Template:En icon
- Official web page at Michel Ocelot's official website Template:En icon
- U.S. and English-speaking Canada official web page at Samuel Goldwyn Films
- Quebec official web page at Axia Films Template:Fr
Category:2010s French animated films Category:2018 animated films Category:2018 computer-animated films Category:Animated adventure films Category:Animated feature films Category:Animated films about friendship Category:Animation based on real people Category:Belgian alternate history films Category:Belgian animated science fiction films Category:Belgian films Category:Belgian mystery films Category:Cel-shaded animation Category:César Award winners Category:Films directed by Michel Ocelot Category:Films set in Paris Category:Films set in the 1900s Category:French adventure films Category:French alternate history films Category:French animated science fiction films Category:French films Category:French mystery films Category:French-language films Category:German alternate history films Category:German animated science fiction films Category:German films Category:Mystery animation Category:Period pieces
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