The Whimsical Council

Jun 3, 2010

0h 12m

★ 7.0

Overview

A young man opens the window of his attic room and discovers a lunar landscape which submerges him and threatens to imprison him in an eternal sheet of ice. He closes the window to escape this vision and hears from deep inside his soul the sound of a poem being sung.

Genres

Animation

Production Companies

Les Films du Nord

Digit Anima

La Boîte, ... Productions

Vivement lundi !

Folimage

The Whimsical Council Trailers

No Trailers found.

Cast

La femme cygne (Voix)

Bénédicte Chabot

Le poète (Voix)

Arthur H.

Le réverbère (Voix)

Franck Monnet

Hamlet (Voix)

Alain Duclos

In 1970s Iran, Marjane 'Marji' Satrapi watches events through her young eyes and her idealistic family of a long dream being fulfilled of the hated Shah's defeat in the Iranian Revolution of 1979. However as Marji grows up, she witnesses first hand how the new Iran, now ruled by Islamic fundamentalists, has become a repressive tyranny on its own.

6.5

Blanche faïence

Feb 20, 2002

No overview available.

7.0

Émile en ce miroir

Jan 1, 2009

No overview available.

7.0

King's Fool

Dec 21, 1988

No overview available.

6.3

Asterix and the Big Fight

Oct 4, 1989

Due to an unfortunate accident involving Obelix throwing a menhir, Getafix the druid not only loses his memory, but goes completely mad. Now deprived of the wisdom of their beloved druid and the protection provided by his magic potion, the Armorican village falls prey to a proclaimed soothsayer who comes with ominous predictions and overweening ambitions. It's up to Asterix to keep his villager friends within reason and hopefully get Getafix to remember the magic potion's recipe before the impending Roman attack.

8.0

The Little Seed

Sep 22, 2015

A little girl catches floral patterns with a magic cloth and uses them to make her own pretty dresses. Every night, ants move her house from one field to the next. One day, a seed drops into her mouth and a young shoot sprouts from her navel.

7.0

Le petit vélo dans la tête

Jan 1, 2002

No overview available.

7.9

Mary and Max

Apr 9, 2009

A tale of friendship between two unlikely pen pals: Mary, a lonely, eight-year-old girl living in the suburbs of Melbourne, and Max, a forty-four-year old, severely obese man living in New York.

7.6

Fantastic Planet

Dec 1, 1973

On the planet Ygam, the Draags, extremely technologically and spiritually advanced blue humanoids, consider the tiny Oms, human beings descendants of Terra's inhabitants, as ignorant animals. Those who live in slavery are treated as simple pets and used to entertain Draag children; those who live hidden in the hostile wilderness of the planet are periodically hunted and ruthlessly slaughtered as if they were vermin.

7.0

Home Sweet Home

Apr 6, 2019

An old lady’s house is full of boxes filled with memories. Every Wednesday, along with her cockroach friends, she tells her granddaughter wonderful stories. But as the little girl grows bigger, they start running out of space inside the house.

0.0

Early Grief Special

Jun 15, 2020

Early Grief Special takes place in a greasy spoon. It is the only place in London where people are allowed to grieve. Its purpose is to push bereaved people to feel better and move on quickly. A new customer arrives for their first meal, the Early Grief Special. They feel lost, alone and scared. Not wanting to face death and grief leads to the experience being even more strange and unsettling.

7.0

Jacadi

Jan 1, 2001

No overview available.

7.0

Un spectacle interrompu

Jan 1, 2012

No overview available.

0.0

The Blue Years

Nov 17, 2018

Rubén tries to describe the color blue as "The color of dreams, of art, of the ocean and of the firmament", thereby unleashing half a century of poetry.

2.0

Stabat Mater

Jul 17, 2023

He stood, in pain, near the rope, in tears, while his creator hung.

2.0

Lines

Feb 10, 2021

Six poems written by six young prisoners animated to tell their stories, thoughts, fears and hopes.

7.7

Azur & Asmar: The Princes' Quest

Oct 25, 2006

Raised on tales of a Djinn fairy princess, Azur, a young Frenchman goes to North Africa in search of the sprite, only to discover that his close childhood friend, Asmar, an Arab youth whose mother raised both boys also seeks the genie.

6.4

Kirikou and the Wild Beasts

Dec 7, 2005

The film is a sub-story to Kirikou and the Sorceress rather than a straight sequel. The movie is set while Kirikou is still a child and Karaba is still a sorceress. Like Princes et princesses and Les Contes de la nuit, it is an anthology film comprising several episodic stories, each of them describing Kirikou's interactions with a different animals. It is however unique among Michel Ocelot's films, not only in that it is co-directed by Bénédicte Galup (who has previously worked with him as an animator) but also for each of the stories being written by a different person (in all other cases, Ocelot has been the sole writer and director of his films).

0.0

Catfish Blues

May 1, 2005

No overview available.

The Whimsical Council

Overview

Genres

Production Companies

The Whimsical Council Trailers