An elaborate fantasy tale intended for family audiences, Babel tells the story of the Babels, a strange breed of four-foot-tall creatures who once coexisted happily with human beings on planet Earth. However, when the humans built a huge tower to taunt God, he became angry and drove the Babels underground, while scattering the humans to the corners of the Earth and giving them different languages to keep them separate. Thousands of years later, three Babels are searching underground for the Babel Stone presented to them by God when they lose the map -- which is soon snapped up by a dog, who presents it to his master, an advertising man named Patrick. The Babels are desperate to recover the map, and they recruit Patrick's son David to help them find it (and the Babel Stone) before the evil Nemrod can steal the stone and claim its powers.
Production
Babel creature designs are genuinely unsettling—in the best way.
Acting
Tchéky Karyo treats this material like Shakespeare and commits fully.
Director
Gérard Pullicino
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was a Canada-France-UK co-production that barely cracked distribution outside Quebec and French TV markets.
Director Gérard Pullicino was primarily a TV director; this remains his only theatrical feature—a fascinating one-and-done in fantasy cinema.
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