Calamity, a childhood of Martha Jane Cannary
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Synopsis and details
From 6 years old
1863, United States of America. In a convoy moving west with the hope of a better life, Martha Jane’s father is injured. She is the one who must drive the family cart and look after the horses. Learning is tough and yet Martha Jane has never felt so free. And since it’s more practical for horseback riding, she doesn’t hesitate to put on pants. This is too much daring for Abraham, the leader of the convoy. Accused of theft, Martha is forced to flee. Dressed as a boy, in search of proof of her innocence, she discovers a world under construction where her unique personality will assert itself. An adventure full of dangers and rich in encounters which, step by step, will reveal the mythical Calamity Jane.
Distributor
Gebeka Films
Awards
1 prize and 1 nomination
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Year of production
2020
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Type of movie
Feature film
Secrets of filming
8 anecdotes
Budget
7 952 824 €
Languages
French
Format production
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Color
Color
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N ° de Visa
147788
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30 press articles
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Excellent movie! I took my CP and CE1 classes and everyone loved it, teachers, teachers included! At the end, a lot of very interesting and stimulating discussions between girls and boys. I absolutely recommend!
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Sublime adventure film, funny and full of emotions. The evolution of this little Martha who will become Calamity Jane is beautifully constructed and so much in the mind of this woman who broke the machismo and obscurantism of her time. My two boys aged 7 and 16 loved it. A masterpiece as well graphic as in its history.
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Calamity is a very beautiful work. A superb animation, a powerful heroic breath, precise emotional springs and always very correct. An era perfectly transcribed for a story of compelling and necessary emancipation. https://www.cineserie.com/critiques/cine/calamity-une-enfance-de-martha-jane-cannary-un-petit-chef-doeuvre-de-lanimation-3790398/ https://youtu.be/ QVZSUFPfm8Y
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Far from the big stables of Disney, Pixar or Dreamworks-type animation, this Franco-Danish achievement out of nowhere, telling the childhood of Calamity Jane, fares well by offering a simple but remarkably energetic story. The action takes place in the United States in the 1860s where a convoy of wagons from several families tries to cross the country in search of new land in order to get there …
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Statement of intent
Rémi Chayé explains that he wanted to “go back to a fiction built around his characters, with embodied issues, portraits that speak to us as much about the conquest of the West as they do today. Characters that we build with their complexities, with villains who have their share of light ”. Visually, he sought “the graphic simplicity of the figures carved into strong shapes with …
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“A childhood of Martha Jane Cannary”
The feature film looks back on the youth of Calamity Jane (aka Martha Jane), a period of which there are few historical traces. The film’s subtitle highlights that it is an invention of the first constituent adventure of the future Calamity Jane, her passage from childhood to adulthood. It was not a question of being true to reality because Calamity Jane did not stop lying about her life, but to “imagine how this” spirit …
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Untangling the true from the false
Orphan and left to her own devices very early on, Calamity Jane has never stopped lying and inventing a life for herself. It seems established that she was born on May 1, 1856 in Princeton, Missouri, the eldest of a family of three boys and two girls. His parents, Robert and Charlotte, leave their farm to avoid a lawsuit over a grandfather’s inheritance. Illiterate, his autobiography was surely written under his dictation. We now know that this …
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