The Eye of the Wolf / The Cyclop of the Sea ( L'oeil du loup / Le cyclope de la mer ) ( The Wolf's Eye / The Sea Cyclops )

The Eye of the Wolf / The Cyclop of the Sea (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: L'oeil du loup / Le cyclope de la mer
Alternate Title: The Wolf's Eye / The Sea Cyclops
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
French ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )

Product Origin/Format:
France ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
75 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Making Of
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1998-1999 and produced in:
France ( France, Benelux )

Directed By:
Hoël Caouissin
Philippe Jullien

Written By:
Hoël Caouissin
René Laloux
Philippe Jullien
Jean-Pierre Lemouland

Actors:
Briac Barthélémy
Marc Brunet
Danièle Rezzi
Philippe Jullien
Jean-Pierre Lemouland

Synopsis:

L'Oeil Du Loup (The Wolf's Eye) is quite a recent production in comparison to the latter two; produced in 1997, the story was based on Daniel Pennac's eponymous book. Africa, a young African orphan, recently relocated to Paris had been visiting a one-eyed wolf in a zoo. A strange psychic bond starts to form between them and they start to recount their lives to each other. The wolf tells him of how he was captured by men and Africa tells him of how he survived the civil war that made him an orphan.

Le Cyclope de Mer (The Sea Cyclops) is another labor of love - lasting less than 12 minutes on screen, it took 3 years for the entire project to be completed. Using stop animation, creator Philippe Julien recounts the bitter-sweet tale of a Cyclops living in a lighthouse who nurses a sick fish back to health. Set to the wonderful music of Yann Tiersen (the composer of Amélie's soundtrack), Julien manages with no dialogue whatsoever to make a wonderfully personal fairytale come to life. Stylistically, this reminded me of the sadly deleted game The Neverhood which used a similar style of animation although there's no denying that Julien's style is very much his own with surreal twists and themes of loneliness and despair so rare in children's programs.

This product was added to our catalog on Friday 12 June, 2009.

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