1980 · fantasy · animation · family
The King and the Mockingbird
Directed by Paul Grimault1h 23m1980
A young shepherdess and a chimneysweep plan to get married and escape the clutches of a tyrannical king in love with her, assisted by the guile of a cheeky mockingbird, the king's archenemy.
Our read: The King and the Mockingbird (1980) reads as a warm, kinetic, inventive fantasy · animation · family entry — gentle in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, redemptive in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Warm, kinetic, gentle fantasy / animation, inventive in texture. Redemptive, mid-stakes, measured.
- warm
- brisk
- inventive
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