This sublime children’s fable will amaze young and old at the cinema! It’s not just Spider-Man on the big screen this week, it’s also this extremely endearing little daredevil heroine!
Princess Dragon, in theaters Wednesday, December 15, tells the story of Poil, a little girl raised by a powerful dragon. But when her father has to pay the Witchcraft with her second most precious possession, it is Foil that he offers, plunging his daughter into infinite sadness and forcing her to flee the family cave.
Poil then embarks on a journey to discover the world of men. In contact with them, she will learn friendship, solidarity, but also the greed which seems to eat away at men’s hearts.
A HAIRY HEROINE!
Our heroine is not a little girl like the others! Hair is stronger than a little girl. She is even stronger than a thousand little girls. We all know little girls don’t breathe fire. Hair if! And she loves it. And for good reason, she is the daughter of a dragon! Raised from a young age in the forest, among large reptiles, the idea that Poil has of the world will completely change when she meets Princess.
His need to escape convenience and discover the world around him never makes him miss an opportunity to escape his guards. Princess meets Poil during a walk in the forest and, from then on, the two little girls will never leave each other.
A NICE DRAGON
As for the dragon, which will delight children who love mythical creatures, it has spent several centuries accumulating wealth. When the time came to have babies, the poor man realized that he was incapable of it. He was very saddened by this and made a pact with the Witchwort. By some unknown magic, the latter allowed him to obtain three eggs. Which satisfied Dragon three times.
From the first two eggs sprang from the dragonets and until then, everything was perfect… But from the third egg… From the third egg, a little girl appeared… Dragon only liked humans when it came to rob them or bite them. So he was first angry with this little ball of hair that had invaded his cave. He tried to get rid of it several times before changing his mind. After all, her daughter was breathing fire like a dragon.
A PERFECT FABLE FOR THE WHOLE FAMILY
This pretty tale for children was directed by Jean-Jacques Denis and Anthony Roux, already co-authors of the film Dofus – Book 1: Julith for the Ankama studio. Denis is a French director born in 1975. Coming from an animation training at the École des Gobelins in Paris, he began his career as a storyboarder on various animation series. In 2010, he began a fruitful collaboration with Ankama on many projects from the world of Krosmoz.
As for Anthony Roux, also known under the pseudonym Tot, he was born on March 9, 1977 in Montreuil. He is a comic book, television series, film producer, director, video game designer, and board game author. Coming from the fine arts of Tournai, he is the creative and general director of the Ankama group.
“After a film like Dofus, which sometimes had childish and sometimes more ado-pop-culture aspects, we decided to make something clear and simple, a real children’s film, without ambiguity. We were given a framework, namely to make a film with a fairly small budget and of a fairly short duration. From this affirmed desire for simplicity, Anthony began to work and nourish the story “, confides Jean-Jacques Denis.
From the start, Anthony Roux immediately wanted to address the child’s place in the family. More precisely, what if a child does not quite meet the expectations of his parents, his father in our case? By adding the question of the value of this relationship in the face of ambition and wealth.
GHIBLI INFLUENCE
“The first theme is the meeting and the spontaneous friendship that will be born between two little girls who are each a disappointment for their father, opposing the project of dominant adults which often divides, to that of children which unites. In short, there are several themes that are in the background, without trying to make a heavy demonstration, because the film remains above all sentimental and tries to capture the emotion that crosses the heroines during this story “, explains Jean-Jacques Denis.
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