My Father’s Dragon (2)
- cosy
- brisk
- inventive
- redemptive
- tender
Cosy, kinetic, measured animation / family, inventive in texture. Redemptive, mid-stakes, tender.
How every film is hand-scored →Struggling to cope after a move to the city with his mother, Elmer runs away in search of Wild Island and a young dragon who waits to be rescued. Elmer’s adventures introduce him to ferocious beasts, a mysterious island and the friendship of a lifetime.
Our read · My Father’s Dragon (2) (2022) reads as a cosy, kinetic, inventive animation · family · fantasy entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
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The shape of My Father’s Dragon
What watching it is actually like.
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The reading.
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