Every day until March 31, 2024 I will be watching and reviewing a movie that is 90 minutes or less.
Title: The King and the Mockingbird
Release Date: March 18, 1980
Director: Paul Grimault
Production Company: Les Films Paul Grimault | Les Films Gibé | Antenne 2
Summary/Review:
Over 30 years in the making, The King and the Mockingbird is a surreal animated fantasy film known as an inspiration for Studio Ghibli founders Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata. The film bridges Disney and Warner Bros animation styles with the later Ghibli style and is inventive in its own ways. The basic plot involves an autocratic king who is deposed by a painting of himself and then pursues a shepherdess from another painting who is actually in love with a chimney sweep. All along he has taunted by a bird who unravels all the king’s plots. The animation is as delightfully weird as the plot.
Rating: ****
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