Romeo and Juliet between fire and water? That’s what the trailer and promo for Elementary , Pixar’s 27th feature film and the first original film from the studio to find its way into darkrooms since Onward (Soul, Luca, and Red Alert came straight to Disney+) hinted at. . Peter Sohn’s film, unveiled at the closing ceremony of the 76th Cannes Film Festival this Saturday, May 27, is ultimately much more complex, rich and personal.
My parents are no longer with us and the purpose of this film is to honor them and more broadly to honor all of our parents
Through the story of Flam Lumen, whose parents immigrated to Element City to offer him a better future, the filmmaker, best known for the (brilliant) short film Passages Nuageux and then the prehistoric adventure Le Voyage d’Arlo, revisits his own journey as a child. Korean immigrants in New York.
Produced by Dennis Ram and directed by Peter Sohn
“Everything starts from a very personal starting point. After my previous film, I went to New York to attend my parents’ thank-you ceremony. I went on stage and saw them in the room and I burst into tears… I thanked them. For all the sacrifices they made for me and my For Bro. And I remember someone in the room yelling like, “Yeah, you can thank them!”
“When I got back to Pixar, I told them the story, and they said, ‘This is your next movie.’ It created tension.”
Peter Sohn This is how they did it elementary What he experienced himself: the clash of cultures, the acceptance of differences, the transmission, the difficult choice between family expectations and personal ambitions, the relationship between parent and child… and the love resulting from the meeting of the young Flamboyante and Fleck Delamarre in the waters of compassion. (literally) with tears. Opposites attract as the old saying goes.
Character animation pushes the boundaries once again, making the feature Pixar’s most ambitious work to date: while generating fire and water is now “routine” in animation, making the central elements and characters as realistic as new was a huge challenge.
Vincent Lacoste and Adele Exarchopoulos, the French voices of Flack and Flemmy
“Not only because the characters are so different, but because they are constantly moving”explains producer Denis Rem. “So it was a huge challenge. And if they are to evoke fire and water, they must also offer real emotions. So it took many, many months of work and I didn’t know if we could do it. By the end of last year! I was really nervous. It was difficult.”.
The work, which spanned seven years of intensive research, was hailed at Cannes yesterday, ahead of the film’s release in French cinemas on June 21. “Elementary will carry this palm forever”she adds. “We love cinema and this film has been made on the big screen so that we can show it here… My grandfather worked in the cinema and he would have been very happy to see his grandson at the Cannes Film Festival.” Again a family story.
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