2011 · animation · fantasy · anthology
Tales of the Night
Directed by Michel Ocelot1h 24m2011
Six exotic fables, each unfold in a unique locale, from Tibet, to medieval Europe, an Aztec kingdom, the African plains, and even the Land of the Dead.
Our read: Tales of the Night (2011) 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.
- warm
- brisk
- inventive
- redemptive
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