Review of The Little Prince (2015) by Serge L — 04 Nov 2017

I watched the french version of course. Super excellent for the animations, the story inside the story and the way the director depicts that the film is only one way of interpreting the sourced book. It is funny to see that the french company making the film is owned by an english company. This is about true of the narrative, the french book is owned by the english story telling it or about it. There is quite a bit of ironies. The school in the film wants to make essential adults, while the main point of the book is to make us realise that the essential is invisible. It is a sort of recuperation by the english. As to what is the essential, it is wisely left to our own ideas. The book is all very slow and ponderous. Very philosophical. This film is more grounded and adventurous although some of it is imaginary.

Enfant, je n'aimais pas beaucoup l'idée de ma mort, surtout que je devais me battre pour garder ma vie, et plusieurs fois contre des serpents. Je trouvais que ma mère se servait de ce livre pour voir si elle pouvait jouer le rôle du serpent. J'ai tué la plupart des serpents qui ont essayé de me manger.