Emilio Mayorga More than a coming of age film, “Perlimps,” the third feature of Oscar-nominated Alȇ Abreu (“The Boy and the World”), could be seen as a dazzling love letter for children.Perlimps” encourages kids’ awareness of social, ecological issues and a taste for art, while delivering a film of artistic ambition and visual complexity.The story focuses on Claé and Bruô, who are secret agents from the enemy Kingdoms of the Sun and the Moon sent to an Enchanted Forest threatened by giants.
The only way they can protect the forest is to join forces and find the Perlimps, mysterious creatures who could have the solution for peace.“Perlimps” is produced by producers-directors Laís Bodansky and Luiz Bolognesi at Sao Paulo-based Buriti Filmes and Ernesto Soto.
Sold by Belgium’s Best Friend Forever, it is screening in Annecy’s official selection as a special event. Brazilian musician-turned-director Alȇ Abreu offers in his new feature a visually lush tale about friendship as well as bold animation techniques.Did you have in mind a specific audience target when making “Perlimps”?I always imagined the audience as a broad spectrum, including parents, teenagers and kids.
It never crossed my mind that we were making a children’s movie. I was more driven by my own desire to explore the color palette and to test a more complex technique after the minimalism of “The Boy and the World.”The movie could be regarded in some way as a love letter for children, among other things awakening in them a taste for art through its singular use of colors….Color gives us many layers of expression and vibration.
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