2000 · animation · fantasy · anthology
Princes and Princesses
Directed by Michel Ocelot1h 10m2000
In this episodic animated fantasy from France, an art teacher interprets a series of six fairy tales (each involving a prince or princess) with the help of two precocious students. Princes and Princesses was created using a special style of cutout animation, with black silhouetted characters performing the action against backlit backdrops in striking colors.
Our read: Princes and Princesses (2000) reads as a cosy, kinetic, inventive animation · fantasy · anthology entry — gentle in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Cosy, kinetic, gentle animation / fantasy, inventive in texture. Redemptive, mid-stakes, tender.
- cosy
- brisk
- inventive
- redemptive
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