Awarded in June for a Golden Crystal at the Annecy animated film festival, released in theaters on October 14 and victim of confinement after two weeks of exploitation and 170,000 spectators, Calamity is one of the victims of the health crisis.
Its DVD release gives it a new chance, even if the small screen does not fully pay it homage. “We clearly did it for the big screen, sums up Rémi Chayé, its 53-year-old director. Nothing replaces the room, but that’s not at odds with enjoying watching movies at home with your kids! “
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Martha Jane finds herself, at the age of 13, on the roads of the conquest of the West. © Gebeka Films
Children who should be charmed by the strong character of the young Martha Jane, future Calamity Jane, launched on the dangerous roads of the conquest of the American West in 1863. “It’s her bad temper that defines her the most. I love how subversive, rude and earthy she is. She speaks rudely, does not stay in the place usually assigned to kids. This is what amused us. “
All the more freedom as the true story of the legend of the Wild West is filled with lies, including from Calamity. ” This is a total fiction while being connected to what it must have been. It had to be a hell of a woman. “
In a very masculine world. An estimated 3% of women live in the western territories still unrelated to the United States. It was very dangerous. “Calamity went where there was work (eg as a Girl Scout). I see her as a doggy punk, festive, polyamorous… ”
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Vast landscapes in pastel colors. © Maybe Movies
But the film is devoted to his youth. To achieve it, it took the work of 170 people, 57,600 drawings, two years of writing, one year for the story-board filmed, then twenty-eight months of production where the recording of voices served as a basis for the cartoonists and animators.
An initiatory and positive adventure, far from the clichés of the western, allowing children to see things differently. ” They will see that one girl doesn’t have to be elegant. That everyone can dress and act as they want. How good it feels for boys to have girls like that. That it’s not just princesses waiting for Prince Charming! “
Now, Rémi Chayé is working on Paris at the beginning of the twentiethe century. In the area, this ring that surrounded the capital. With as main character, a kid who goes to work in the factory and sings to get by. Another beautiful heroine.
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