- Anca Damian wrote "The Extraordinary Voyage of Marona" after meeting a dog in a shelter.
- She imagined what the life of the animal could have been.
- His film, presented at the Annecy Festival, is a marvel of originality and tenderness.
Astonishment at the Annecy Festival when the spectators discovered a little crunchy little dog with her eyes full of tenderness, heroine of Marona's L'Extraordinaire voyage . But Anca Damian did not only tap into her imagination to create this enchantment that evokes the life of the animal with its different masters.
"Marona really exists," explains the Romanian director at 20 Minutes . I found her in a shelter and she was adopted by friends because I already had a dog with which she could not have cohabited. The dog however marked Anca Damian to the point of inspiring her this story which will convince the spectator that this small animal has not usurped its reputation as "best friend of humans".
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Marona's gaze
"With a look overflowing with love like hers, I wondered how Marona had been able to land in a cage," says Anca Damian, who embroidered her script from this interrogation. An acrobat, a site manager and a young girl will fill Marona's life until the dramatic ending. "My film is not sad because its existence is full," says the director. The subtle emotion that emerges from his feature film excludes melodrama in a magnificent burst of poetry.
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Marona's look
The real Marona has a brown coat as its name suggests. Anca Damian decided that she would have black and white fur in fiction. "This choice allowed Marona to be more visible by cutting through the colorful environment in which she lives," says the director. It was really an aesthetic desire to better highlight it. »Various animation techniques (2D, 3D, cut paper) are intertwined to make Marona the star of this story also carried by the talent of the illustrator Brecht Evens.
Marona's life
From the first images of the film, Marona is hit by a car and remembers those she loved. "The real Marona is in great shape, although she has no doubt had traumatic experiences," reassures Anca Damian. The dog finds a new magical existence in this original tale whose images surprise with their inventiveness and their fantasy. Thanks to Marona's Extraordinary Journey , we now know that cats are not the only ones to have several lives.
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