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Zarafa

Animation, Family - 2012
Zarafa
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Inspired by the true story of the first giraffe to visit France, Zarafa is a sumptuously animated and stirring adventure, and a throwback to a bygone era of hand-drawn animation and epic storytelling set among sweeping CinemaScope vistas of parched desert, wind-swept mountains and open skies. Under the cover of darkness a small boy, Maki, loosens the shackles that bind him and escapes into the desert night. Pursued by slavers across the moon-lit savannah, Maki meets Zarafa, a baby giraffe – and an orphan, just like him – as well as the nomad Hassan, Prince of the Desert. Hassan takes them to Alexandria for an audience with the Pasha of Egypt, who orders him to deliver the exotic animal as a gift to King Charles of France.
Director:
,
Rémi Bezançon
,
Jean-Christophe Lie
Cast:
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Vernon Dobtcheff
,
Simon Abkarian
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Philippe Morier-Genoud
,
Ronit Elkabetz
,
Roger Dumas
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Déborah François
,
Thierry Frémont
,
Mohamed Fellag
,
Max Renaudin
,
Mostéfa Stiti

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Details

Runtime:
78 min
Release date:
25 Jan 2012
Country:
BE, FR
Languages:
French
Budget:
$10,750,000
Revenue:
$12,197,574
Awards:
5 nominations

Top Critics Reviews

rotten:
In trying to tell an epic tale over just 78 minutes, the filmmakers sacrifice anything that might have made their film memorable.
– Tom Huddleston,
Time Out,
5 Oct 2015
fresh:
This hand-drawn French adventure is a children's story in the routine template of many friends-and-villains quests, but with a fresh historical setting and a serenely subdued look.
– Nicolas Rapold,
New York Times,
2 Jul 2015
fresh:
Since there are giraffes in Parisian zoos, there necessarily had to be a first one, and Remi Bezancon and Jean-Christophe Lie's Zarafa is a beautifully animated and often moving telling of how it arrived there in the early 1800s.
– Sherilyn Connelly,
Village Voice,
1 Jul 2015
fresh:
While the gorgeous widescreen landscapes have a pencil-and-aquarelle quality, the characters themselves are literally rougher-edged, a clever reminder of the hand-drawn, sketchlike quality of traditional animation.
– Boyd van Hoeij,
Variety,
27 Mar 2012
fresh:
A colorfully compelling kids flick with darker historical undertones, Zarafa reps a smart and successful freshman animation effort from writer-director Remi Bezancon.
– Jordan Mintzer,
Hollywood Reporter,
10 Feb 2012
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