Based on an never-filmed screenplay by Jacques Tati, this is Sylvain Chomet's follow-up to his "The Triplets of Belleville".
Like Triplets, this is a very traditional, hand-drawn animated film, set in the Edinburgh of the 1950's. A French magician ends up in Scotland to find work in a world where his craft is being superceded by the new media of rocknroll and television.
As a film about the dying of an age, it's terribly bittersweet. Consistent with Tati and Triplets, there is almost no intelligible dialogue in the film, but the quality of the drawings and an evocative soundtrack give you all the information you need.
Although I enjoyed it, I wonder how it will survive in the current movie distribution environment. It will be interesting to see how this film is marketed. It's probably too quiet to be a film for kids. It may be destined to be a film that will rely on word-of-mouth to succeed.
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