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Avril et le Monde Truqué
April and the Extraordinary World
April and the Twisted World
France / Belgium / Canada 2015
produced by
Michel Dutheil, Franck Ekinci, Marc Jousset for Je Suis Bien Content, Canal+, Kaibou Productions, Need Productions, Jouror Distribution, Arte, Radio Télévision Belge Francophone (RTBF), Proximus, Tchack, Centre National de la Cinématographie (CNC), Eurimages, MEDIA Programme of the European Union, Wallimage, Région Ile-de-France
directed by Christian Desmares, Franck Ekinci
starring the voices of Marion Cotillard, Philippe Katerine, Jean Rochefort, Olivier Gourmet, Marc-André Grondin, Bouli Lanners, Anne Coesens, Macha Grenon, Benoît Brière
screenplay by Franck Ekinci, Benjamin Legrand, based on the graphic novel by Jacques Tardi, music by Valentin Hadjadj
animation
review by
Mike Haberfelner
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France 1941, in a world where most inventions that define the 20th
century, like elictiricity and airplanes, just haven't been made because
all of humankind's top scientists have been abducted by ... well, more of
that later. As a result, the world relies on charcoal rather than oil, and
wars are fought over forests. The French, still ruled by a descendant of
Napoleon, have a habit to incarcerate their top scientists who aren't
willing to help them in their war efforts - but they haven't succeeded in
getting hold of the parents of April, inventors of a super-soldier serum,
before they were abducted, and thus bumbling cop Pizoni is now after
April, who's trying to continue her parents' research, and who lives with
her talking cat Darwin inside of a statue ... and she's much to clever to
be caught by Pizoni, which is why he has hired ex-con Julius to tail her -
and as the two fall in love, he soon figures he's got her ... when April
and company are attacked by something that seems like an electric cloud
with a mind of its own, and they only manage to escape thanks to April's
super scientist granddad's walking (and swimming) house. Eventually
though, April and friends and granddad end up where her parents have been
abducted to, a kind of sanctuary for super scientists who have been made
prisoners by ... lizards in robot suits. And these lizards plan to blow up
the earth - but not if April can help it ... April and the
Etraordinary World is above all else ... just wow. Sure, it's by no
means the first steampunk film, and you'll probably have seen most of its
best ideas somewhere else - but the way this is put together is just
incredible, and its story is not just well-structured with all the
suspense and surprise twists at just the right moments, it's also
incredibly entertainingly told - and the charming art and animation don't
hurt one bit either of course. Definitely a must-see!
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