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Archipelago

2022 · 72 min

A slow, poetic drift through hand-drawn islands and voices, more like reading a thoughtful essay than watching a story.

Directed by: Félix Dufour-Laperrière
Genres: Animation, Documentary
Starring: Florence Blain Mbaye, Mattis Savard-Verhoeven, Joséphine Bacon

Tagline: A true animated film about an invented archipelago. About an imaginary, linguistic, political territory. About a real or dreamed country, or something in between.
Overview: A true animated film about invented islands. About an imaginary, linguistic, political territory. About a real or dreamed country, or something in between. Archipelago is a film of drawings and speeches, that tells and dreams a place and its inhabitants, to tell and dream a little of our world and times.

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Directed by: Félix Dufour-Laperrière
Genres: Animation, Documentary
Starring: Florence Blain Mbaye, Mattis Savard-Verhoeven, Joséphine Bacon

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Tone: melancholicstrength 2 of 3
earneststrength 2 of 3
eeriestrength 1 of 3
warmstrength 1 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: identity
politics
isolation
memory
art
Places: sea
countryside
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: animated
documentary
nonlinear
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence none
Sex none

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Humour	2
Realism	5
Romance	1
Tension	2
Darkness	3
Complexity	8
Emotional weight	6

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Genres: animation, documentary
Directed by: Félix Dufour-Laperrière
Written by: Félix Dufour-Laperrière
Starring: Florence Blain Mbaye, Mattis Savard-Verhoeven, Joséphine Bacon
Music: Christophe Lamarche-Ledoux, Stéphane Lafleur
Runtime: 72 min
Country: Canada
Languages: French

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