The Painting

Oct 12, 2011

1h 20m

★ 7.0

Break on through to the other side.

Overview

Three characters living in an unfinished painting venture out into the real world in search of their creator to convince him to finish his work.

Genres

Fantasy

Animation

Production Companies

Blue Spirit

Be-FILMS

uFilm

Rezo Productions

Sinématik

France 3 Cinéma

RTBF

The Painting Trailers

Cast

Claire (voice)

Chloé Berthier

Plume (voice)

Thierry Jahn

Lola (voice)

Jessica Monceau

Garance (voice)

Céline Ronté

Ramo (voice)

Adrien Larmande

Orange de Mars (voice)

Magali Ronsenzweig

Self-portrait / The Painter (voice)

Jean-François Laguionie

Gom (voice)

Julien Bouanich

Pierrot (voice)

Serge Faliu

Magenta (voice)

Thomas Sagols

Monsieur Gris (voice)

Jérémy Prévost

Venice Painter (voice)

Jean Barney

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