45 years after its release, we have not yet been able to wake up from the absolutely moving finale of this absolute masterpiece

“I have been looking for money for thirty years, I wanted to make a movie.. These were the words, with sad lightness, the words of an enormous pioneer artist of animation, who was Paul Grimo in the late 70s.

He was released what his first animated feature film was, Shepherdess and the Chimney Sweep, on which he worked with Jacques Prevert in 1946, Paul Grimul acquired the negatives and the rights of the film twenty years later, finally able to return, not without difficulties.

It will really take 30 years and endless patience to deliver what will become king and bird; The work is equal without French cinema and even in the history of animation. The absolute wonders that struck and nourished the imagination of the whole generations of film buffets and filmmakers, of which no less, such as Master Hayao Myazak, who devotes a well -deserved cult to Grima’s masterpiece.

Steel Titan that contradicts his master

Watering with the unusual dialogues made by the Prevert, King, and Bird’s pen is the kingdom of Charles V and III font-Hit-Hit-work-labor, which reigns the kingdom of Tyrant Tyrant. He is in love with the modest shepherd with whom he wants to marry. But he loves and loves a little fireplace. With the help of a mediocre bird, who is a nest on the head of the king’s private apartments, they flee to the lower city. Police found their trail.

Flying cars run by a mustache, police officers, mysterious wall -colored creatures that spy the city, the motorized Mermon and the king on his floating electric throne, or on his giant car, persecute them. The crazy persecution begins …

Until the bird ends with the control of a giant robot, which then destroys, with a kind of catharsis rage, a city that has long become inhumane. His work is over, the population fled, the robot sitting again on the ruins of smoking. Like Rodin’s thinker, he is now alone, condemning a slow stream of time to disappear under rust and dust.

Although there is no more soul alive, the cage appears in the midst of ruins. This is a small bird of the bird. Always very curious and adventurous, he was still trapped and seemed to be unfortunately condemned to die. Whatever he cries in trouble, there is no one around anyone who can help.

Although we have thought that it will be located for eternity, the steel monster comes to itself, as if it were subject to the consciousness that would now be on its own, and move on with the catastrophic fate that promised a sad child’s bird.

Measured with a gesture that seems to draw his last power, with delicacy opposite proportional to its titanic strength, he opens his pincher -like fingers with bars behind the thin captives.

Although the baby’s bird returns to its freedom and flys, the fist of iron giant runs into the cage and on the stomach, Polish composer Wojciech Killar’s final and heartbroken melancholic notes. The end is absolutely exciting, with extraordinary symbolism, emotional charge that has been divided into two stones.

I will see you again, below …

“One of the most beautiful films that tells us about freedom”

Beyond the grace and delicacy of his animations and his exquisite dialogues, the king and the birds are also required to have a thrilling score of the Polish composer, which Francis Ford Coppola Dracula after 13 years.

“Paul and I never talked about music! I never presented any of the demo.” He told the famous composer twenty years after the release of the king and the bird. “He just let me feel from the inside of the movie.

The film also had a deep resonance with the composer and for good reason. “I am proud to be able to say that I have made music for Jacques Pretvert’s latest movie.

I will definitely think about it in front of the film’s last shot, when a robot, sitting on the debris of the destroyed city, frees the bird and destroys its cage … For all these reasons, the king and birds are undoubtedly one of the most beautiful films that speaks of freedom. Words from a great artist who left us 12 years ago. We couldn’t pay a more beautiful tribute to Grimuli’s work.