Big Cartoon Festival Aims for Children, Adults
Ingrid Nevenchannaya | The Moscow Times
The Big Cartoon Festival runs in cinemas all over Moscow this week to coincide with school half-term holidays. More than 300 films from all over the world will be shown at the festival, including a series of cartoons by Academy Award-winning studio Aardman Animations, featuring their Wallace and Gromit film “A Matter of Loaf and Death.”
The festival started Thursday with the Russian premiere of “The Illusionist,” the latest film by Sylvain Chomet, creator of “The Triplets of Belleville.” The film is based on a script by French comedian Jacques Tati about an illusionist who meets a young woman who is convinced that he is a real magician.
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