![]() ![]() ![]() The result is an alternatively zany and heartfelt film, which doesn't really make the leap from the fine to outstanding -but still has many narrative and visual pleasures to behold. Animal characters with no individual names ('The Fox, The Rabbit, A Duck) are meant to fulfill their alloted roles, but (surprise, surprise) they fail. Without the edgy outlook of Ernest and Celestine, but still within the 'role doesn't make the man' motto, Renner and his co-writer Benjamin Regnaud sign a script that puts firmly the film in the animation for children territory - with a wacky character touch. In the manner of theatrical framing that Michel Ocelot introduced in Princes and Princesses (but totally unrelated in style and subject-matter), The Big Bad Fox And Other Tales is a 3-episode of roles and stereotypes, cleverly subverted, easy to laugh at, and a visual pleasure all the same. ![]() A Folivari / Panique! co-production, the film finds Renner co-directing with Patrick Imbert (who was animation director in Ernest and Celestine). Based on the eponymous graphic novel by Benjamin Renner, The Big Bad Fox And Other Tales (Le grand méchant renard et autres contes, 2017) is the next feature film from the Oscar-nominated, Ernest and Celestine director. ![]()
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