Ten minutes that'll ruin you for normal cartoons forever.
During walks around Stanley Park in Montreal, the director became, for several months, the attentive witness of a number of events, gestures, encounters, brief, fleeting moments, privileged moments . Result of this long observation, Félicité depicts the incessant change of the seasons, making us discover, through the eyes of the artist and her magnificent pastel drawings, nature as an object of emotion and its influence on the world of man.
Cinematography
Pastel frames that look illegally beautiful.
Direction
Longpré's patient gaze transforms a park into cosmos.
Director
Bernard Longpré
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of the National Film Board of Canada's legendary 1980s animation boom, when government funding let artists make uncompromisingly slow, beautiful things.
Longpré literally wandered Stanley Park with sketchbooks for months before animating — no storyboard, just accumulated moments.
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