The Corset: the French animated film of the year! (critical)

Moving from Pixar to Beauce, Louis Clichy swaps 3D for watercolor and signs a teenage and peasant chronicle where he takes us from laughter to tears without ever forcing the line.

We weren’t expecting the co-director ofAsterix – The Domain of the Gods on the ground: that, muddy and windy, of a farm in Beauce at the end of the 80s. However, it is in this setting that Louis Clichy chose to plant his story. Christophe is eleven years old and has a problem: he is leaning. At school, on his father’s tractor, he tips over and falls. The doctors’ opinion is clear: he must wear a metal corset, screwed to his body day and night. Clichy, who carried this team as a child, could have told the story of a martyrdom. It’s the opposite: under its guise, the device becomes armor, a shaky superpower, an offbeat way of looking at the world that pushes the kid towards music, towards Clara, towards life. Because The Corset is first of all a beautiful coming of age story.