Friday, 20 March 2015

City in the sky

Chronopolis (1982)

Written and directed by Piotr Kamler this animated film is a French/Polish collaboration. A man climbs up to a massive futuristic city which is filled with strange beings that spend their days on monotonous tasks.

I watched the shorter version of this film which has all of the narration omitted and that does make this film really ambiguous which is not to the taste of everyone. The plot harks back to the style of various myths, such as stealing fire from the gods, but leaves plenty of room for anyone to offer an interpretation. It took 5 years to make this film but it has a truly unique animation style which is very much reminiscent of ancient carvings.


4/5

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