(ANSA) - ROME, OCTOBER 09 - A film that speaks to the moment we live "is truly a tribute to that spirit within us that does not make us give up, that does not make us lose hope".
So with ANSA Glen Keane, master of animation, creator of iconic Disney characters such as the Little Mermaid, Aladdin and the Beast, Beauty and the Beast, describes Over the moon - Il FantasticoMondo Di Lunaria, his animated film for Netflix, at its debut on 23 October.
The family movie with a high dose of humor, deep feelings and songs (Keane had also talked about it in a streaming meeting for Giffoni), blends the canons of the fairy tale with a trapresent and past look.
The main source of inspiration is the Chinese folk legend of the Goddess Cheng'e, destined to live forever on the moon after having to part with heroic archer Houyi.
The 12-year-old protagonist of the film, Fei Fei, who combines love for tradition and courage, so much so that she invented herself as an 'astronaut sui generis', has already faced serious mourning and a symbol of eternal love in Cheng'.
A feeling that the child would like to make her father rediscover, convinced that she has forgotten it.
Thus, with a creativity to be discovered, Fei Fei manages to arrive right on an amazing moon, a'casa 'of Cheng'e', a goddess between Chinese iconography and popstar habits.
To write the script of Over the Moon, it was Audrey Wells, screenwriter of films like The Courage of Truth, who accepted the position knowing that she was terminally ill (she died in 2018).
The tale is an ideal motherly love letter to her daughter and all children.
"This film touched us very deeply as we made it. We have all faced a loss, and it is an upheaval that even children can experience when they are confronted for the first time with the death of someone they love or the divorce of their parents," explains Keane, Oscar winner. in 2018 for Best Animated Short with DearBasketball - Audrey Wells put so much humor, joy and love into Over the moon. "
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