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The Bears' Famous Invasion of Sicily

La fameuse invasion des ours en Sicile

2019

Lorenzo Mattotti

Animation, Voice: Leïla Bekhti, Thomas Bidegain, Jean-Claude Carrière ...

6.5

827

Animation. Adventure. Fantasy It all starts with Tonio, the Bear King's son, who is kidnapped by hunters in the Sicilian mountains. When the harsh winter threatens his people with famine, King Léonce decides to invade the land where the men live. With the help of his army, and a wizard, he succeeds and finally finds Tonio. But he soon discovers that bears are not meant to live in the land of men.

	Author	Review
United States	Deborah Young The Hollywood Reporter	"A colorful fairy tale for children"	POS
United States	Jay Weissberg Variety	"Clear and pleasing, calculated to charm children and adults alike (...) The revised storyline, however (...) can lead to unfortunate and inadvertent interpretations neither Mattotti nor the original author Dino Buzzati intended"	NEU
United Kingdom	Lee Marshall Screendaily	"This is a brightly-coloured but also hip and stylish visual world"	POS
	Kaleem Aftab Cineuropa	"What starts off as an animation for kids morphs into a wonderful tale of cultural appropriation and colonization (...) A real joy."	POS

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