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March 20: Les Contes de la nuit / Tales of the Night (France, 2011, subtitled)
Sunday, March 20, 2:00pm
UNC Charlotte Center City, Lecture Hall
Les Contes de la nuit/ Tales of the Night
Director Michel Ocelot
France, 2011, 84 min
In French with English subtitles
Presented as part of The Tournées Festival, which was made possible with the support of the Cultural Services of the French Embassy in the US, the Centre National de la Cinématographie et de l'Image Animée, and the Franco-American Cultural Fund.
Additional sponsors are the Alliance Française de Charlotte and the UNC Charlotte French Club.
Introduction by Jane Houston, Lecturer of French, UNC Charlotte. Discussion will follow screening.
This collection of six marvelous, visually bold fairy tales is the first film shot in 3D by Director Michel Ocelot, best known for Kirikou and the Sorceress (1998) and Azur and Asmar (2006). Propelling the stories in motion are a young actor and actress, who meet with an older screenwriter to bring their imaginative fables to life, inserting themselves into their own fantasies. These stories span the globe and historical eras, taking place in the Caribbean, medieval Europe, an Aztec kingdom, Africa, Tibet—and the Land of the Dead. And each, in telling the tale of how a young man overcomes obstacles to win the hand of a princess, takes a decidedly wry, ironic turn.
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"Six freshly conceived fairy tales are rendered instantly timeless through Michel Ocelot's signature silhouette style in Tales of the Night. An extension of the shadow-puppet approach employed in Princes and Princesses, enhanced this time around by a stereoscopic presentation that aids in separating Ocelot's distinctive figures from their richly colored backgrounds. There's something wonderfully oldfashioned about Ocelot's style, which reaches back even before cinema to the classic camera obscura tradition." -Peter Debruge, Variety.
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