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Animated Film Drawn in Kecskemét to be Screened at the Cannes Film Festival
The French animated film made with the collaboration of Kecskemétfilm will be screened on Friday evening, May 24, in the competition program of the 77th annual Cannes Film Festival, reports Magyar Nemzet. Márta Varga, assistant to the management of Kecskemétfilm, said that the studio joined the production of the feature-length animated film The Most Precious of Cargoes (La Plus Précieuse des marchandises) directed by Oscar-winning director Michel Hazanavicius two years ago.
A significant part of the artwork for the film was done at the Kecskemét animation studio in central Hungary, where, in addition to the animation assistant work, character animation, light and shadow animation, effects design and almost all the animation painting were done with the participation of about forty of their staff, Márta Varga noted.
The director of The Artist, winner of five Academy Awards, has been working for several years on an animated film based on the novel of the same name by Jean-Claude Grumberg. Hazanavicius co-wrote the screenplay with Grumberg and also did the artwork. The film’s music is by Oscar-winning composer Alexandre Desplat and the narrator is Jean-Louis Trintignant.
Michel Hazanavicius. Photo via Wikipedia.
The drama The Most Precious of Cargoes intertwines the fate of the twins of a Jewish family deported to Auschwitz with that of a poor and childless woodcutter couple living in the depths of a Polish forest. On the train to the death camp, the young father wraps one of the babies in a shawl and throws it off the train into the snow. The lonely woodcutter’s wife, watching the trains in the hope that they will leave something useful behind, finds the little girl and decides to take her home.
Márta Varga added that
the movie will be the opening film of the 2024 Annecy International Animated Film Festival in June,
and is expected to be released in French cinemas in November, after which it will be distributed internationally and in Hungary.
This is not the first time that a film made in collaboration with Kecskemétfilm has been screened in Cannes, as the last time, in 2016, The Red Turtle, which was later nominated for an Oscar, was the subject of similar excitement.
Fact
The 77th annual Cannes Film Festival is a film festival taking place from May 14 to 25, 2024. American filmmaker and actress Greta Gerwig is serving as jury president for the main competition. During the festival, three Honorary Palme d’Ors are awarded: the first was awarded for Meryl Streep during the festival’s opening ceremony; the second will be awarded to Studio Ghibli; and the third will be awarded for George Lucas during the festival’s closing ceremony.Via Magyar Nemzet; Featured image via Facebook/STUDIOCANAL