Marcel et Monsieur Pagnol
This is the life of Marcel Pagnol, a playwright, novelist and filmmaker who grew up in a middle-class household in Marseille and became one of the world's most inventive and prolific artists from the 1930's to the 1950's.
In Sylvain Chomet’s animation, Pagnol at 61 appears very close to giving up on his career, so a younger Marcel comes to the rescue. When asked to write a memoir, Pagnol simply can’t do it - not without the help of hope and optimism personified in the figure of young Marcel. Like most biopics, the animation pays tribute to its subject, making Pagnol a man at ease with the times, embracing the medium of cinema when his theatre colleagues were too sceptical to try. From the director of the wonderful ‘Belleville Rendez-Vous’. ‘A gorgeous, decidedly dewy-eyed heritage hagiography’. Screen. (Subtitles)
France/Belgium/Luxembourg 2025 Sylvain Chomet 90m
