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Avril et le monde truqué

  • 2015
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Avril et le monde truqué (2015)
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It's 1941 but France is trapped in the nineteenth century, governed by steam and Napoleon V, where scientists vanish mysteriously. Avril, a teenage girl, goes in search of her missing scient... Read allIt's 1941 but France is trapped in the nineteenth century, governed by steam and Napoleon V, where scientists vanish mysteriously. Avril, a teenage girl, goes in search of her missing scientist parents.It's 1941 but France is trapped in the nineteenth century, governed by steam and Napoleon V, where scientists vanish mysteriously. Avril, a teenage girl, goes in search of her missing scientist parents.

  • Directors
    • Christian Desmares
    • Franck Ekinci
  • Writers
    • Franck Ekinci
    • Benjamin Legrand
    • Jacques Tardi
  • Stars
    • Marion Cotillard
    • Marc-André Grondin
    • Philippe Katerine
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    • Directors
      • Christian Desmares
      • Franck Ekinci
    • Writers
      • Franck Ekinci
      • Benjamin Legrand
      • Jacques Tardi
    • Stars
      • Marion Cotillard
      • Marc-André Grondin
      • Philippe Katerine
    • 35User reviews
    • 77Critic reviews
    • 85Metascore
  • See production info at IMDbPro
    • Awards
      • 1 win & 7 nominations total

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    Marion Cotillard
    Marion Cotillard
    • Avril
    • (voice)
    Marc-André Grondin
    Marc-André Grondin
    • Julius
    • (voice)
    Philippe Katerine
    Philippe Katerine
    • Darwin
    • (voice)
    Jean Rochefort
    Jean Rochefort
    • Pops
    • (voice)
    Bouli Lanners
    Bouli Lanners
    • Pizoni
    • (voice)
    Olivier Gourmet
    Olivier Gourmet
    • Paul
    • (voice)
    Macha Grenon
    Macha Grenon
    • Annette
    • (voice)
    Benoît Brière
    Benoît Brière
    • Rodrigue
    • (voice)
    • (as Benoit Brière)
    Anne Coesens
    Anne Coesens
    • Chimène
    • (voice)
    Carlos Alazraqui
    Carlos Alazraqui
    • Additional Voices
    • (English version)
    • (voice)
    Victor Brandt
    • Additional Voices
    • (English version)
    • (voice)
    Mark Camacho
    Mark Camacho
    • Paul
    • (English version)
    • (voice)
    Tod Fennell
    Tod Fennell
    • Julius
    • (English version)
    • (voice)
    Angela Galuppo
    Angela Galuppo
    • April
    • (English version)
    • (voice)
    Paul Giamatti
    Paul Giamatti
    • Pizoni
    • (English version)
    • (voice)
    Tony Hale
    Tony Hale
    • Darwin
    • (English version)
    • (voice)
    Tony Robinow
    • Pops
    • (English version)
    • (voice)
    Susan Sarandon
    Susan Sarandon
    • Chimène
    • (English version)
    • (voice)
    • Directors
      • Christian Desmares
      • Franck Ekinci
    • Writers
      • Franck Ekinci
      • Benjamin Legrand
      • Jacques Tardi
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    9planktonrules

    A very unusual animated steampunk, sci-fi, alternate reality picture!

    I recently reviewed a Japanese film and was left a bit indifferent by the film. It's a shame, as I really love animated pictures. Thank goodness I found "April and the Extraordinary World"...an animated movie that was delightful and really, really unusual. It isn't so unusual because it's in a steampunk world...a few other films have explored this same sort of material. However, the film offers far more in this odd alternate universe...and it makes the film worth seeing. Fortunately, it just debuted on DVD and is available through Netflix.

    When the film begins, you learn that this alternate tale of planet Earth diverged for our reality in the 19th century. Apparently Napoleon III was a bit of a nut and was intent on using his top scientist to create super-soldiers which the French could use against the Prussians. However, the experiments were failures and soon the French and Prussians made peace. His successor, Napoleon IV, was also a bit of a nut...and tried as well to use the top scientific minds to make super-weapons...but, oddly, soon all the scientists began disappearing...and so the world never experienced the gains of the 19th and 20th century. Electricity never really came into widespread use and instead the world was a dirty, deforested strange steam-driven place...and the French were part of an empire dedicated to war with the United States...a war for resources as the Europeans had completely exhausted their natural reserves.

    Time passes and soon the story soon involves a family torn apart in the 1930s. Napoleon V's agents have been searching for the scientists and a few of them are in hiding in Paris. Soon young April and her scientist parents and grandfather are all separated and the young girl is raised in an orphanage. A decade passes. April lives in a secret hiding place with her talking cat...yes, I said talking cat. Anyway, government agents are looking for April...and assume they can use her to find her family and the other scientists. Here's where it gets weird...yes, weirder than the talking cat! It seems that most of the scientists, including April's parents, are working with aliens...yes, aliens! What are they working on and how does April figure into all this? And, how does the cat become a hero? See this clever mind-bending film and find out for yourself.

    This project has an unusual pedigree. It originally was a graphic novel...which isn't unusual. But it was made and financed by French, Belgians and Canadians! The overall product is a very nice bit of escapism. I liked the story very much as well as the characters. My only complaint, and it's so small that I barely want to mention it, is that the characters themselves weren't drawn to the highest standard. The background and much of the animation was lovely...but April and the rest don't exactly look like Disney or Studio Ghibli quality. I found I was able to look past this.

    So who would enjoy the film? Well, most anyone except younger kids. It is not cute or child-oriented in any way and younger kids would probably be confused and bored. The youngest I'd show it to are kids about 10. Try it if you love anime, try it if you love more traditional animation, try it if you like sci-fi or try it if you just want to see something different. I'm glad I did.
    7subxerogravity

    An Extraordinary World indeed

    Avril's Extraordinary world is an alternative time line in which Napoleon V rules France and the scientist that help built the foundations of technology are missing, forcing the world into a steam punk setting, and Avril a young scientist herself has the key to our future.

    It's animated quite beautifully. I'm a huge fan of steam punk and I love seeing the design all over the movie. I also like the style of 3D animation blended with computer generated images. It's always a welcome change to see this other than the world we live in right now that is dominated by 3D animation.

    It was a great adventure film, filed with character and characters that were smart and funny, and accessible to everyone.

    Good watch.
    Red_Identity

    Pretty entertaining

    2016 has really proved to be a great year for film. April and the Extraordinary World may not be on the level of some truly fantastic animated films (Kubo and the Two Strings, Tower, The Red Turtle, Zootopia) but it's still a very good film in its own right. The great thing about it is that it is not held back by having to only appeal to children and by not having to show anything that may be even remotely inappropriate for kids. It's a very classic action-adventure story, one where you could also see working in live action (although not exactly because many of the characters would not translate to live action as well). It is very well paced, very funny at times, and also genuinely heartfelt. That ending was also really effective, with the last scene really hitting on some great themes that the film had only previously alluded to. Definitely recommended.
    7Radu_A

    The best (and a bit of the worst) of European animation

    There is much to love, but also a bit to dislike about "April and the extraordinary world" (the correct and more interesting title is "April and the twisted world"). Its story explodes with creativity, especially compared to US animation (which tends to severely underestimate the intelligence of children). Its "ligne claire" - animation style is both a break from US-animated CGI, which hasn't been successfully adapted in Europe, and an homage to the patron saint of European comics Hergé (co-director Ekinci did, in fact, do the storyboards of the 1991-92 "Adventures of Tintin" TV series, which is often considered to be the best adaptation).

    Leaning on Jacques Tardi for the visuals is a reminder that BD (bandes dessinées) adaptations work best in the classic animated form. One cannot help but compare "April" to Luc Besson's real-action adaptation of "Adèle Blanc-Sec", Tardi's most famous work. That movie was a commercial success, but BD fans were disappointed with the humorization of a serious story-line and the cheap-looking effects.

    What's not so great about "April" is that it's so voluntarily old-fashioned that you may have a hard time convincing your kids to watch it. The character expressions and movements are very static, the heroine is not designed to express emotions through gestures. That is very Tardi, very Adèle Blanc-Sec (which translates as "dry white", after all). But what works fine in a BD doesn't necessarily work in a movie. It seems that French animators still cannot bring themselves to realize that the times they are a-changing, and that a l'art pour l'art approach cannot reinvigorate an expiring industry, apart from justifying a €9.2 million budget (against which it has earned 5%).

    Given the character's lack of expression, the film relies heavily on the dub, and I must say other actresses could have done more justice to the part of April than Marion Cotillard - Mélanie Laurent, for instance, or Chiara Mastroianni who voiced Marjane Satrapi in her BD autobiography "Persepolis". Cotillard is a fine actress but she has a tendency to exaggerate, which can be entertaining but also quite unnerving - just look up her death scene in "Dark Knight rises" on Youtube if you don't (painfully) remember. Jean Rochefort, on the other hand, is wonderful as "Pops", April's grandfather. He speaks his lines with great candor and veracity, as does Olivier Gourmet as the father.

    So what you get to watch here is a very creative, if old-fashioned animation, which could be of more merit to adults than kids, who may find it hard to follow and perhaps somewhat boring. This is not a perfect European animated film for the whole family - that would be last year's Irish "Song of the Sea". It's also not a fandom film for BD connoisseurs, as the dub and continuity jar a bit, and as there is no commitment to a mature audience, like in the works of Sylvain Chomet. But if you're starved for anything animated that is not Japanese or yet another US CGI-film about talking animals, this one is definitely for you.
    9iutes_alex

    A great animated movie for all ages a classic in the making

    "Avril and the extraordinary world" was presented before the official release at the Anim'est international animation festival in Bucharest. I went to see it after a brief look at parts of the official trailer, without knowing anything about the cast, cartoonist, director and the plot in general. I have to say that it was a magnificent movie, reminding me of some classic Disney style hand crafted animation that I used to love when I was a child. It is beautifully drawn and looks without any flaws. The story takes place in an alternative universe, where some modern inventions where never discovered or made available for the advancement of our societies. This makes you question how would the world look like if we have never used electricity or petrol in our daily lives. And the movie answers a lot of these questions. The plot keeps you for most of the movie engaged and in some small parts at the edge of your seat. The comic release character, a talking cat with the name of Darwin was instantly liked by all people present at the screening, adults and children together. His comments of various situations in the movie proved to be very effective, bringing smiles and laughter all around.

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    • Trivia
      The film is based on the art style of famed French comic book artist Jacques Tardi, but not on one of his actual works. Instead, Tardi was brought in at the earliest stages by his friend and sometime collaborator Benjamin Legrand, to come up with the look of the film and the characters.
    • Goofs
      During the blackout, an announcement is made over the Public Address system that the backup generators are about to be turned on. But without regular power or backup power, the PA system would not work.
    • Quotes

      Rodrigue: Chimène, I just had an idea. A nonviolent one! I think you'll like it.

    • Crazy credits
      The opening credits of the production companies, cast and crew are drawn in the movie's animated style on cards, labels and other objects inside a lab.
    • Connections
      References Metropolis (1927)
    • Soundtracks
      Chargez! Chargez!
      Written by Perrine Capron and Claire Tillier

      Performed by Claire Tillier

      Guitar: Denis Vautrin

      Lyrics by Perrine Capron, Claire Tillier and Franck Ekinci

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    • Release date
      • November 4, 2015 (France)
    • Countries of origin
      • France
      • Canada
      • Belgium
    • Official sites
      • Je Suis Bien Content (France)
      • Métropole Films Distribution (Canada)
    • Language
      • French
    • Also known as
      • April and the Extraordinary World
    • Production companies
      • Je Suis Bien Content
      • StudioCanal
      • Kaibou Productions
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    • Budget
      • €9,180,292 (estimated)
    • Gross US & Canada
      • $295,488
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $11,413
      • Mar 27, 2016
    • Gross worldwide
      • $495,879
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 45 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.85 : 1

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