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A Cat in Paris
Why this pick
Its angular hand-drawn style, nocturnal cityscape, and child-in-peril adventure make it a close companion to Phantom Boy’s playful, suspenseful animated urban world.
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MOVIE2015 1h 22m FRA
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Why this pick
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Why this pick
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
Leo is a young boy, aged 11, who lives in New York City. Life is no fun for him, as he was hospitalized because of an illness. Fortunately, the illness has unexpectedly given him an extraordinary power: the power to split to hover and fly in the air in intangible form, invisible and impalpable, while his physical body remains mostly asleep. In this form, he can go anywhere and even through walls. Meanwhile, Alex, a policeman, is hospitalized in the same hospital after breaking a leg in an accident. That was not helpful at all, because he was on the track of a bandit nicknamed "the man with the broken face", who had caused the accident and plans to take control of the city with the help of a computer virus in the next 24 hours. Leo and Alex will then join forces to save the city, all in less than a day.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Audrey Tautou
Mary Delauney (voice)
Patrick Ridremont
The Nervous Little Man / The Safecracker / The Exterminator (voice)
Jean-Pierre Marielle
The Man with the Broken Face (voice)
Jackie Berroyer
The Mole (voice)
Patrick Descamps
The Giant (voice)