Les contes de la nuit 2011

Andy Webster, New York Times: The narratives - involving princesses, sorcerers, dragons, talking animals - are familiar. But Mr. Ocelot invigorates them with lyricism ... Read more

Jeff Shannon, Seattle Times: Six mostly engaging fairy tales are digitally rendered with silhouetted characters performing in front of vivid, colorful backgrounds. Read more

Ty Burr, Boston Globe: Has ... eye-bending backgrounds but a creatively monochromatic foreground that comes to feel like a limitation. Read more

J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader: The movie never comes close to replicating the spell that Reiniger was able to cast using much more primitive techniques, which underlines a chronic problem of computer animation: its very precision squeezes all the magic from the magic lantern. Read more

Farran Smith Nehme, New York Post: More likely to play well with older children, due to its split-up story line, Ocelot's creation is like nothing else they are likely to see animating the multiplex. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: It is so gentle and whimsical that one wonders if American children, accustomed to the whiz-bang action of most animation, will accept it. Read more

Cath Clarke, Time Out: While some of them do drag, older kids could well fall for these magical, timeless tales. Read more

Joshua Rothkopf, Time Out: The film feels naive for an audience that's ready for some harder truths. Read more

Chris Packham, Village Voice: Animated with fluidity and deliberateness that nearly excuses the film's slightness. Read more