The Cannes Film Festival has a closing film.
Pixar’s elemental It will cover the 76th edition of the iconic film festival next month, Pixar Animation Studios announced on Wednesday.
The feature film will be the fourth Pixar film to have its world premiere in a French venue, following previous selections. Above, inside out And Soulsaid the studio.
“It’s a pleasure and an honor for Pixar to be back at La Croisette as we all come out of our pandemic cocoon and come together in story rooms, animation diaries and impromptu brainstorming sessions,” Pixar’s creative director Pete Docter said in a news release. . Directed by the outstanding storyteller Peter Sohn, ‘Elemental’ is hilarious, heartwarming and frankly fascinating to watch. It was created for audiences to experience on the big screen and I love that it’s making its world premiere in 2018. Cannes.”
elemental Set in a fictional place called Element City, where “the inhabitants of fire, water, land, and air coexist,” and features the voices of Leah Lewis, Mamoudou Athie, Wendi McLendon-Covey, and Catherine O’Hara.
With the tagline “Opposites React”, the plot revolves around the hot Ember (Lewis) and her relationship with Wade (Athie), a “go with the flow” man.
With original music by Thomas Newman, the film’s cast includes Mason Wertheimer, Joe Pera, Ronnie del Carmen and Shila Ommi.
In an interview with Collider last fall, Sohn (who wrote and directed 2015’s) Good Dinosaur) shared that he was nervous about how moviegoers would receive the movie.
“I’m totally afraid of how people will react to that,” Sohn said at the time. “There have been a lot of artists who have worked really hard to try to do something new, especially in terms of non-kinematic models that are constantly moving with characters of air, water and fire.”
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“A lot of effort and love has gone into this technical process. At the same time, we hope audiences don’t see it, but see the characters they embody, and hopefully get involved,” he added. love with it.”
elemental It will be released in theaters on June 16, 2023.