The Bears' Famous Invasion of Sicily (film)

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The Bears' Famous Invasion of Sicily
File:The Bears' Famous Invasion of Sicily film poster.png
Italian theatrical release poster
Directed by Lorenzo Mattotti
Produced by Valérie Schermann
Christophe Jankovic
Screenplay by Jean-Luc Fromental
Thomas Bidegain
Lorenzo Mattotti
Based on The Bears' Famous Invasion of Sicily by Dino Buzzati
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Music by René Audry
Edited by Nassim Gordji Tehrani
Sophie Reine
Production
company
Prima Linea Productions
Distributed by BIM Distribuzione
Pathé
Release dates
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  • 21 May 2019 (2019-05-21) (Cannes)[1]
  • 9 October 2019 (2019-10-09) (France)
  • 7 November 2019 (2019-11-07) (Italy)
Running time
 82 minutes
Country Italy
France
Language Italian
French
English
Budget €11 million[2]
Box office $2.2 million[3]

The Bears' Famous Invasion of Sicily, also known as The Bears and the Invasion of Sicily in the United States (Italian: La famosa invasione degli orsi in Sicilia ; French: La Fameuse Invasion des ours en Sicile), is a 2019 Italian-French traditionally animated adventure film directed by Lorenzo Mattotti. The screenplay by Mattotti, Jean-Luc Fromental and Thomas Bidegain is based on the 1945 Italian children's book The Bears' Famous Invasion of Sicily by Dino Buzzati.[4]

The film was selected to be screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival.[5] Pathé distributed the film in France on 9 October 2019 and by BIM Distribuzione in Italy on 7 November 2019. It received critical acclaim.

Cast

Character Italian voice actor French voice actor English voice actor
Almerina Linda Caridi Leïla Bekhti Cameron Diaz
Gedeone Antonio Albanese Thomas Bidegain David Collins
Old Bear Andrea Camilleri Jean-Claude Carrière Charlie Adler
Bear Babbon Roberto Ciufoli Boris Rehlinger Michael Cera
Leonzio Toni Servillo Thierry Hancisse Noah Taylor
Salpetre Corrado Guzzanti Jacky Nercessian James Arnold Taylor
Tonio Alberto Boubakar Malanchino Arthur Dupont Tom Kenny

Production

The film is produced by the French company Prima Linea Productions. It is co-produced with Pathé and France 3 Cinéma in France and Indigo Films and Rai Cinema in Italy. It has a budget of €11 million.[2] It received financial support from Canal+ and the CNC.[6] It received 375,000 euros from the Ile-de-France region's Support Fund for Film and Audiovisual Technical Industries.[7] The project also won the Gan Foundation's Special Prize for 2016.[6]

The visual style is inspired by Buzzati's illustrations but also independent from the original book. The landscapes are inspired by real Mediterranean landscapes with liberties taken in order to create a fairytale-like atmosphere. Mattotti's ambition was to create a timeless visual style so that people who view the film in the future will not be able to see when it was made.[8]

The film was in production in November 2016. In a November 2016 interview, Mattotti expected it to be released in two or three years.[9]

Reception

Critical response

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