Between the simplicity of human life in its smallest details and the impact of the culture of consumption and capitalism on humans, the dramatic treatment came in a contemporary way to the performance of the ballet “Coppelia”, which was shown for the first time at the end of the 19th century, but this time through a cinematic work of the same name, a Dutch production An English-German-Belgian joint, and the film was shown in more than one international and international festival, including the Annecy Animation Film Festival in France 2021 and the fifth edition of the El Gouna Film Festival in Egypt.

contemporary treatment

Film director Jeff Tudor, known for his interest in transforming dance theatrical productions into cinema, along with Stephen de Beulle, founder of an animation studio, and director Ben Tassur, chose Ernst Hoffmann's "Sandman" story - turned ballet "Coppelia" - to present it with a picture contemporary.

The story is about a person who makes a doll and wants to give it life, but the film is concerned with presenting a contemporary treatment that reveals the ugliness experienced by man, after he fell prey to the exploitation of capitalist forces and consumption, and the majority fell victim to cosmetic surgeries that have spread in recent years and overshadowed human feelings after Matter is controlling people.

contemporary classical music

The expression of the artistic vision came through the combination of 3D animation, and dancers from many countries whose way of expression was to dance without any dialogue or words. With the state of work, between the atmosphere and state of happiness, joy and love conveyed by music, and between moments of despair, anticipation, intense fear and frustration, music has become one of the main heroes of the work whose makers decided not to contain any dialogue sentences.

The film directors also used their skills in animation to build a city full of cheerful colors that expresses the state of simplicity, happiness and love experienced by the citizens, especially the heroine "Swan" and the hero "France", but things change when the famous plastic surgeon Coppelius appears, who wants to withdraw the soul from the inhabitants The city for the perfect robot that he created called Coppelia, which appears in his luxury car and the huge building that does not resemble the city in its simplicity and charm, which is the building that he uses in his plastic surgery.

fake beauty

A world of magic during the 80-minute duration of the film, where the viewer lives in a state of contradiction between the true beauty and the essence of the human soul, and the distortion of the city by the culture of consumption that begins with advertising cosmetic surgeries and reaching perfection and the elixir of life, until the majority falls into the trap of this doctor, who changes From their features as he pleases and succeeds in seizing what distinguishes their souls in order to give them to his doll that "Coppelia" made, so circumstances change and human feelings decrease in favor of the state of falsehood created by this doctor, but when he decides to sign France into his plan, Swan begins declaring her war on him to save Her lover, especially after the beauty of her town changed and ugliness replaced her.

Expressing the artistic vision came through the integration of animators and dancers from many countries (communication sites)

vitiligo

Choosing the film's heroine, Michaela de Prince, a black American ballerina with vitiligo, which clearly appears on her neck. Lightly and subtly beside her expressive facial features.

cinematic ballet

The makers of the movie "Coppelia" succeeded in presenting the state of the gap between the charming natural life and the ugliness that humanity is experiencing now, thanks to the consumer culture and the spread of cosmetic surgeries that dominated humans through exhibition panels of ballet dancers in an unconventional experience on the cinema screen.