Ari Folman directs this new version of the classic story, this time in animation format.
Kitty, Anne Frank’s imaginary friend, wakes up in the present only to find her creator turned into a tourist attraction. Based on a comic that he himself wrote, filmmaker-oracle Ari Folman (‘The Congress’) discover in a life narrated ad nauseam a well of truth to dust off and rehearse, a glove for the horror of the future. Because the light of the inner worlds of Anne Frank is still inspiring, but Kitty will have to face a fascism that changes its face and that today smiles at us, appetizing.
With slick movements and lively colours, Folman’s ‘liquid’ animation contaminates all the layers of time that Kitty traverses in search of her Anne. The Israeli adds hints of beauty and death, and in each painting wonders about how much humanity can remain in a story turned into tissue shaken to mitigate Western guilt. Above all, sign an intelligent film, which has the courage to look a young audience in the eye. Watch it in class.
To share concerns of the present with the generations of the future.
DATA SHEET
Direction: Ari Folman Original title: X Country: Belgium Year: 2021 Release date: 04-29-2022 Gender: Animation Film script: Ari Folman, Jani Thiltges Duration: 99 min.
Synopsis: Kitty, the imaginary friend Anne Frank wrote about in her famous Diary, comes to life in present-day Amsterdam. Unaware that 75 years have passed, Kitty is convinced that if she is alive, then Anne must be too.
The film tells the story of Kitty’s search through contemporary Europe to find her dear friend. Armed with her precious Diary and with the help of her friend Peter Ella, who runs a secret shelter for undocumented refugees, Kitty follows Anne’s footsteps, from the Annex to her tragic end in the Holocaust.
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