DVD : THE LUNATIC COUNCIL (Le Concile lunatique)

A film by Christophe GAUTRY & Arnaud DEMUYNCK (France - 2010)

« Methinks it is time to be reborn mocking  », he calls to a singing streetlamp that has come up to his window...
Against a background of 19th century Paris, the puppet takes his joyful melancholy and light irony wherever he goes, lulled by the verses of a poet who died too young and the unmistakable voice of Arthur H.

Animated Puppets

A young man opens the window of his attic room and sees a lunar landscape which submerges him and threatens to imprison him in an eternal sheet of ice.

He closes the window to shut out his vision and hears from deep inside his soul, the sound of a poem being sung. « Methinks it is time to be reborn mocking », he calls to a singing streetlamp that has come up to his window...

Astride the streetlamp, the poet then embarks on a surrealist and outlandis journey.

During their trip, the two friends meet different characters avery bit as fantastic as themselves : a clown Hamlet, a trapeze artist, a moustached executioner...

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Animated Puppets