The Whale and the Snail
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Synopsis and details
From 3 years
A small sea snail is bored on the rock of an old port and dreams of traveling the world. One day, a large humpback whale offers to take it on a journey across the oceans of the globe. This unusual friendship plunges us into a fabulous odyssey in the heart of nature, from the infinitely small to the infinitely large.
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Original title
The Snail and The Whale
Distributor
Les Films du Préau
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Year of production
2020
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Type of movie
Feature film
Secrets of filming
5 anecdotes
Budget
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Languages
English
Format production
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Color
Color
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Screening format
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N ° de Visa
153801
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1:00
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It’s pretty like the idea, but it’s really not too developed. You can’t find a shorter and simpler film than this one.
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A cartoon from 3 years old and it is perfectly adapted. I went with my 3.5 year old twins. The story is pretty and not too impressive for their young age, the images are very beautiful and the length is right. For a first cinema, they were delighted and its ready to repeat the experience.
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2 Spectator Reviews
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An adaptation
The Whale and the Snail is originally a children’s book with rhyming text written by Julia Donaldson and illustrations by Axel Scheffler. Directors Max Lang and Daniel Snaddon explain, “We wanted to create a very handcrafted, timeless world that children could immediately love. The prospect of having to render an entirely underwater world was a passionate challenge …
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Magic Light Pictures
The Whale and the Snail is produced by British production company Magic Light Pictures, which has been bringing children’s literature classics to the screen since the 2000s: The Gruffalo (nominated for an Oscar for Best Short Film Animation), Le Petit Gruffalo, The Witch in the Air (also nominated for the Oscars), Monsieur Bout-de-Bois, A tale can hide another (both nominated for the BAFTAs and …
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Technical questions
The team of Zébulon the dragon, released in 2019, is again asked to put in images La Baleine et l’Escargote. The directors call on storyboarder Christian Puille, who initially uses the graphic code of the book on a different scale of shots. After various evolutions, the characters are modeled and animated in 3D. The artistic choice is intended to be naturalistic from the outset, especially for morphology and movement …
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