Dilili in Paris
- warm
- brisk
- redemptive
Warm, kinetic, measured animation / mystery, inventive in texture. Redemptive, mid-stakes, measured, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.
How every film is hand-scored →With the help of her delivery-boy friend, Dilili, a young Kanak, investigates a spate of mysterious kidnappings of young girls that is plaguing Belle Epoque Paris. In the course of her investigation she encounters a series of extraordinary characters, each of whom provides her with clues that will help her in her quest.
Our read · Dilili in Paris (2018) reads as a warm, kinetic, inventive animation · mystery · adventure entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, redemptive in outlook, with a strong directorial signature. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.
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The shape of Dilili in Paris
What watching it is actually like.
“You want beautiful Belle Epoque animation of a girl solving kidnappings in Paris.”
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Closeness in the twelve-axis space — how the film actually reads, not “people also liked.”
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