The Painting

The Painting (2011)

Le Tableau

Break on through to the other side.

Three characters living in an unfinished painting venture out into the real world in search of their creator to convince him to finish his work.

Date of release
2011-10-12
TMDB
7.0 / 10 (181)
Runtime
1h 20m
Genres
Fantasy, Animation
Director
Jean-François Laguionie

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Budget: €4M
  • Awards: 1 · Nominations: 1. Including: CICFF Professional Jury Award for Best Animated Feature Film

The Painting is a 2011 French animated film directed by Jean-François Laguionie.

Production

The film was coproduced by France's Blue Spirit and Belgium's Be-Films. It took two years to finance and had a budget of four million euro. Jean-François Laguionie designed every character himself. The designs include homages to painters such as Marc Chagall, Amedeo Modigliani, Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse. Preproduction took 15 months and production took one year. The film was animated in digital 3D.

The Painting is the fourth feature-length animated film by Jean-François Laguionie after Gwen and the Book of Sand, The Castle of the Monkeys, and The Island of Black Mór. The creation of The Painting takes five years.

The script of the film is written by Anik Le Ray, who had previously worked with Laguionie on The Island of Black Mór; she writes the script for The Painting while Laguionie is finishing The Island. Anik Le Ray's initial idea is to conceive a story on the theme of creation. She begins by imagining a story between a painter and his model. However, this initial idea seems insufficient for a film likely to interest children.

Le Ray had no fixed idea about the painter's style while writing the script; the visual universe of the film is clarified later when Laguionie develops it in collaboration with the film's production designer, Jean Palenstijn. Laguionie first invents a historical context for the character of the Painter, situating his career in the 1920s-1930s, and determining his pictorial influences: he draws inspiration from Chagall, Matisse, Derain, Bonnard, a…

The worlds of the various paintings have been designed to not reference too precisely a given historical period: in the initial painting, the costumes of the Toupins mix elements from different centuries, as do the uniforms of the soldiers in the painting about war.

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