Berlinale: with "En Avant", Pixar explores the universe of "heroic fantasy"

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After Là-haut and Vice-Versa, here is En Avant, the 22nd animated feature from the Pixar studio, now under the Disney banner. Pixar explores a new universe with this "heroic fantasy" film. It was screened out of competition on Friday at the 70th Berlinale, the Berlin international film festival.

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From our special correspondent in Berlin, Sophie Torlotin

From Vice-Versa to the Toy Story series, via Wall E or Up , the success of a Pixar film is due to the richness of the universe explored, whether it is the throes of adolescence, of old age or death. The American animators succeed in proposing overwhelming stories while mixing twists, humor, and complexity of the characters.

Ahead, directed by Dan Scanlon, it also manages, exploring a new universe for Pixar "heroic fantasy". In this magical world, two young elves, Ian, just 16 years old, and his big brother Barley will have to team up to be able to spend a few hours with their dead father whom they have little, or not at all known.

We laugh, we cry and we shudder in front of this film which takes up, by diverting them, the codes of the heroic fantaisy. One can even read, implicitly, a critique of capitalism and the American way of life.

Even if graphically this realization is less attractive than other Pixar films, En Avant touches the hearts of the spectators with this beautiful story of relationship between two brothers.

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