PREVIEW: A Cat in Paris (U)

Come along to see A Cat In Paris this week, a cosy and immensely enjoyable French kids' film with a difference (don't worry, it's overdubbed in English).  Follow the story of Dino the cat and Zoe, the little girl he lives with in a film that has perfect dialogue and a score which gives this classy, Oscar-nominated family feature an irresistible, jazzy elegance.

Dino is a cat that leads a double life. By day he lives with Zoe, a little girl whose mother is a detective in the Parisian police force, but at night he sneaks out the window to work with Nico, a slinky cat burglar with a big heart, whose fluid movements are poetry in motion as he slips and swishes from rooftop to rooftop across the Paris skyline. The cat’s two worlds collide when young Zoe decides to follow Dino on his nocturnal adventures and falls into the hands of Victor Costa, a blustery gangster planning the theft of a rare statue. Cat and cat burglar team up to save Zoe from the bumbling thieves, leading to a thrilling acrobatic finale on top of Notre Dame. A warm and richly humorous love letter to classic noir films with the stylized wit of the Pink Panther cartoons – here is a kids’ film the grown-ups will enjoy as much as the little ones.

The animation of this film is fantastic; a fantastic example of traditional ink and paint cartooning.  Paris has never looked so romantic or mysterious in cartoon form.

*A charming, visually sparkling Parisian fantasy with a dark edge.* Empire

*The picture sparkles, but in the nighttime way - its charms have a noirish gleam* Movieline

Watch the trailer here:

 

A Cat In Paris

is screening on Friday 21st at 10.45am & 3pm and Saturday 22nd at 3pm.