Fresh
"The King and the Mockingbird" just might be the best animated film of the year.
Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times
The King and the Mockingbird
1980 · 1h 23m · Not Rated
Animation, Family, Fantasy
Directed by
Paul Grimault
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The King and the Mockingbird
Overview
A young shepherdess and a chimneysweep plan to get married and escape the clutches of a tyrannical king in love with her, assisted by the guile of a cheeky mockingbird, the king's archenemy.
Director and cast
- Paul Grimault Director
- Jean Martin as L'oiseau (voice)
- Renaud Marx as Le ramoneur (voice)
- Agnès Viala as La bergère (voice)
- Pascal Mazzotti as Le roi (voice)
- Albert Médina as Le belluaire / Le haut hurleur (voice)
- Philippe Derrez as Le liftier / Le speaker (voice)
- Raymond Bussières as Le chef de la police (voice)
- Roger Blin as L’aveugle (voice)
- Claude Piéplu as Le maire du palais (voice)
- Hubert Deschamps Cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
100%
Tomatometer
Fresh
An unforgettable story of love, loss and life's absurdities.
Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune
Fresh
On a basic level, The King and the Mockingbird is a fun fantasy. But to the two poets who first imagined it, it must have felt like a repository for all the madness of a still-smoldering world.
Bilge Ebiri, New York Magazine/Vulture
Fresh
The film is suffused with a subversive attitude toward the rich and clueless, epitomized by a king at war with a talking bird.
Joe McGovern, Entertainment Weekly
Fresh
What a tortured path "The King and the Mockingbird" has taken to reach theaters in the United States, and what a treat it is for us to be able to experience it now.
Christy Lemire, RogerEbert.com
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