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Forward: it's very magical

3/3/2020, 5:21:46 PM


CRITICAL - An ode to magic and siblings, the 22nd Pixar film is also a pretty parable about the omnipotence of technology.

Imagine an enchanted world, made at the origin of magic and spells, but which has gradually become commonplace due to the development of technologies. A world still populated by elves, centaurs, fairies and unicorns but where the fire is lit with a switch rather than by invocation. The electricity fairy is aptly named here.

This is the strange (and yet so familiar) place where the modern tale is born En Avant , 22nd film from Pixar studios by Dan Scanlon ( Monsters University ). It is at the heart of this ancestral kingdom, deviated, urbanized like ours, that we meet two elven brothers (decked out with big noses and big green ears) raised by their mother, a dynamic widow who has rebuilt her life with a friendly mustachioed centaur and police officer.

On the day of little Ian's 16th birthday, his mother goes to the attic to look for a special gift bequeathed to the two brothers by their dad, who died of illness fifteen years earlier: a stick of a worthy sorcerer

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