The 1995 referendum, a couple and a family in upheaval, and thousands of grey-scale drawings: Félix Dufour-Laperrière tells a personal, collective and political tale through poetic, sublimely rendered images. A one-of-a-kind animation.
For his second feature, Félix Dufour-Laperrière turns to animated fiction, mingling the personal, the collective and the political. In the midst of the 1995 referendum, a couple of intellectuals get back together on the shores of the Gaspé Peninsula and the father tries to make peace with his son. Ambitious and subtle, Ville Neuve is a story of emotional rifts, dashed artistic aspirations and a nationalist dream derailed. Thousands of fabulously rendered and madly poetic drawings form...
Feature film , Animation
QUéBEC/CANADA | 76 minutes | 2018
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