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The French animated film made in collaboration with Kecskemétfilm will be screened on Friday evening, May 24, in the competition program of the 77th annual Cannes Film Festival, reports Magyar Nemzet. Márta Varga, assistant to the management of Kecskemétfilm, said that the studio joined the production of the feature-length animated film The Most Precious of Cargoes (La Plus Précieuse des marchandises), directed by Oscar-winning director Michel Hazanavicius, two years ago.
A significant part of the artwork for the film was done at the Kecskemét animation studio in central Hungary, where in addition to the animation assistant work, character animation, light and shadow animation, effects design, and almost all the animation painting were done with the participation of about forty of their staff, Márta Varga noted.
The director of The Artist, winner of five Academy Awards, has been working for several years on an animated film based on the novel of the same name by Jean-Claude Grumberg. Hazanavicius co-wrote the screenplay with Grumberg and also did the artwork. The film’s music is by Oscar-winning composer Alexandre Desplat, and is narrated by Jean-Louis Trintignant.
Michel Hazanavicius. Photo via Wikipedia.
The drama The Most Precious of Cargoes intertwines the fate of the twins of a Jewish family deported to Auschwitz with that of a poor and childless woodcutter couple living in the depths of a Polish forest. On the train to the death camp, the young father wraps one of the babies in a shawl and throws it off the train into the snow. The lonely woodcutter’s wife, watching the trains in the hope that they will leave something useful behind, finds the little girl and decides to take her home.
Varga added that
the movie will be the opening film of the 2024 Annecy International Animated Film Festival in June,
and is expected to be released in French cinemas in November, after which it will be distributed internationally and in Hungary.
This is not the first time that a film made in collaboration with Kecskemétfilm has been screened in Cannes. The last time was in 2016, with The Red Turtle, which was later nominated for an Oscar, and was the subject of similar excitement.
Via Magyar Nemzet; Featured image via Facebook/STUDIOCANAL