''Dilili in Paris'' () is a 2018 animated

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written and directed by

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, with

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by Studio O and animation production by

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, about a

Kanak The Kanaks ( French spelling until 1984: Canaque) are the indigenous Melanesian inhabitants of New Caledonia, an overseas collectivity of France in the southwest Pacific. Kanak peoples traditionally speak diverse Austronesian languages that ...

girl investigating a mystery in Paris in the ''Belle Époque''. It stars the voices of Prunelle Charles-Ambron, Enzo Ratsito, and

Natalie Dessay Natalie Dessay (; born 19 April 1965) is a French soprano, best known as an opera singer before her retirement from the opera stage in 2013. She gained wide recognition after her portrayal of Olympia in ''The Tales of Hoffmann'' in 1992, and then ...

Emma Calvé Emma Calvé, born Rosa Emma Calvet (15 August 1858 – 6 January 1942) was a French operatic dramatic soprano. Calvé was probably the most famous French female opera singer of the Belle Époque. Hers was an international career, and she sang ...

in the original, French-language version. The film had an invitation-only world premiere on 11 June 2018 as the opening ceremony feature, and its public premiere on June 12, at the

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before being released in cinemas on October 10 in France, on October 24 in Belgium and in 2019 in Germany. It won the César Award for Best Animated Feature at the

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. It has been licensed for distribution in the United States and English-speaking Canada by

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(having already been released in

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by Axia Films), who released it in cinemas in 2019.

Synopsis

During the Belle Époque, the little mixed race girl Dilili was part of a Kanak village set up in a Parisian public garden. Orel, a scooter driver, slips into the enclosure to meet Dilili, who finds him in the evening. She tells him her story: she has both European ancestors and Kanak ancestors, she was educated by Madame Michel (who is none other than

Louise Michel Louise Michel (; 29 May 1830 – 9 January 1905) was a teacher and prominent figure during the Paris Commune. Following her penal transportation to New Caledonia she began to embrace anarchism, and upon her return to France she emerged as an im ...

), then on her arrival in Paris, she met a countess who taught her good manners. Orel offers Dilili a ride around Paris on his scooter while he makes his deliveries. Enthusiastic, Dilili discovers the streets and squares of Paris. They meet

Marie Curie Maria Salomea Skłodowska-Curie (; ; 7 November 1867 – 4 July 1934), known simply as Marie Curie ( ; ), was a Polish and naturalised-French physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity. She was List of female ...

, to whom Orel had to bring her daughter Ève, then the singer

, friend of Orel, who likes to sing on the underground lake which extends under the Garnier Opera, as well as the writer

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in the company of his friend

Reynaldo Hahn Reynaldo Hahn de Echenagucia (9 August 1874 – 28 January 1947) was a Venezuelan-born French composer, conductor, music critic, and singer. He is best known for his songs – ''mélodies'' – of which he wrote more than 100. Hahn was born ...

. The little girl writes down in her notebook the names of the celebrities she meets and who give her all kinds of ideas for jobs she would like to do later. Very quickly, Dilili is intrigued by the announcements from newspaper sellers: little girls are regularly kidnapped by a network of bandits who sign their crimes under the name “Male-Masters”. Dilili immediately decides to investigate to find the missing girls. Herself the victim of a first kidnapping attempt in a public garden, she is saved by Orel. The investigation leads Dilili and Orel to the Moulin du Diable, in

Montparnasse Montparnasse () is an area in the south of Paris, France, on the left bank of the river Seine, centred at the crossroads of the Boulevard du Montparnasse and the Rue de Rennes, between the Rue de Rennes and boulevard Raspail. It is split betwee ...

, in the poor neighbourhoods where they are poorly received. They cross the fence, but are attacked by a rabid mastiff who bites Orel at the risk of transmitting the disease to him. Dilili puts Orel in the scooter and races back down the slope to the Pasteur Institute, where she begs

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to vaccinate Orel. Once the latter is out of danger, the investigation can resume. Pasteur and his entourage give new leads to the investigative duo. They then go to the boat wash, a building which houses many painters of the moment. There, they learn that the bandits regularly meet in front of the

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shows . Dilili meets

Colette Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette (; 28 January 1873 – 3 August 1954), known as Colette or Colette Willy, was a French author and woman of letters. She was also a Mime artist, mime, actress, and journalist. Colette is best known in the English-speaki ...

there, then the painter and poster artist

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, who helps them spot two Male Masters. By eavesdropping on their conversation, Dilili learns that they are preparing to rob a jewelry store using equipment that one of the bandits will collect "at the gates of hell" . The two young detectives immediately go to the police, but no one believes them. Their painter friends direct them to the workshop of the sculptor

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, because the “gate of hell” is the name of one of his sculptures. Dilili admires a work by

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there. When they arrive in the garden where the “door to hell” is located, the bandit is already there and Orel pursues him without success: as soon as he steps out into the street, the Male Master inexplicably disappears. However, they take their post to watch for the robbery around the jewelry store. Dilili distracts the bandit who stands guard, while Orel unharnesses the horse from his carriage. When the bandit responsible for the robbery comes out of the jewellery store, Dilili uses his skipping rope to entangle his legs and make him fall: his loot spills on the ground and the two bandits are arrested by the police. An admiring witness, who turns out to be the Prince of Wales passing through Paris, supports Dilili in the face of an unfriendly police officer. Dilili and Orel rest with Emma Calvé, who helps them with her advice. His driver, Lebeuf, makes racist and unpleasant remarks to Dilili at their first meeting. Some time later, Dilili is the victim of a second kidnapping attempt by an old man who pretends to fall. But Dilili recognizes the Male Master by the ring he wears in his nose and Orel's intervention pushes the “old man” to flee. Unfortunately, Emma Calvé entrusts Dilili to Lebeuf some time later. However, he was approached by a Male Master who promised to improve his lot if he delivered the little girl to them. In the evening, Emma Calvé and Orel wait for Dilili in vain: she has been kidnapped. The next day, Lebeuf comes to Emma Calvé's house. In front of her and Orel, stunned, he tells them what happened: he delivered Dilili to the Male Masters as agreed and was able to enter their underground lair. Male Masters control the sewers, allowing them to appear and disappear very quickly. Their leader, the Grand Male Master, dressed in a plum-colored tunic, is convinced that women risk taking power and he seeks to enslave them. In the den of the Male Masters, the kidnapped little girls are educated to be nothing but“four-legged” , who are dressed in black, walk on all fours and are slaves to men to the point of serving them as seats. It was too much even for Lebeuf, who slipped away and now wants to help Emma Calvé and Orel fight against the Male Masters. Lebeuf guides Emma Calvé and Orel into the sewers under the Garnier opera house, to one of the entrances to the Male-Masters' lair. Orel finds, floating on the water, pages torn by Dilili from her notebook and which she has scattered to indicate where the Male Masters have taken her. While everyone searches for her, Dilili is re-educated with the other little girls, forced to walk on all fours. But she escapes by diving into the sewers. Just when she comes across a closed gate and despairs, Orel, Emma Calvé and Lebeuf arrive and rescue her. Everyone returns to rest at the opera. They then meet

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, who welcomes them to her luxurious residence. Dilili rests there and regains hope while everyone devises a plan to rescue the little girls. The Male-Masters' lair is ventilated by an old factory chimney equipped with a weather vane in the shape of a snake. We can therefore deliver the little girls from the air using a light airship operated by pedals. It was the engineer

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who designed the plan for the balloon, but its large dimensions and the urgency of the situation were such that Sarah Bernhardt called on the German baron

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to manufacture it. In the evening, the airship waits for the investigators on the roof of the Garnier opera house. The plan works as planned and the young girls climb back up the chimney using a rope ladder. The airship then reaches the

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and the Champ de Mars, where Emma Calvé sings a divine tune in honor of the little girls and Dilili. The kidnapped little girls are reunited with their parents and the Male Masters network is dismantled. For Dilili, life in Paris is only just beginning.

Cast

* Prunelle Charles-Ambron as Dilili * Enzo Ratsito as Orel *

* Elisabeth Duda as

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Élisabeth Greffulhe Countess Marie Anatole Louise Élisabeth Greffulhe (''Name at birth, née'' de Riquet de Caraman-Chimay; 11 July 1860 – 21 August 1952) was a French socialite, known as a renowned beauty and queen of the ''salons'' of the ''Faubourg Saint-Ge ...

Madeleine Lemaire Madeleine Lemaire, ''née'' Coll (1845 – 8 April 1928), was a French painter who specialized in elegant genre works and flowers. Robert de Montesquiou said she was ''The Empress of the Roses''. She introduced Marcel Proust and Reynaldo Hahn to ...

* Olivier Voisin as

Erik Satie Eric Alfred Leslie Satie (born 17 May 18661 July 1925), better known as Erik Satie, was a French composer and pianist. The son of a French father and a British mother, he studied at the Conservatoire de Paris, Paris Conservatoire but was an undi ...

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* Bruno Paviot as Lebeuf,

, The Lumière brothers, the sewerman * Jérémy Lopez as

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, the Male-Master Coachman * Harrison Arevalo as

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* Thissa d'Avila Bensalah as

Suzanne Valadon Suzanne Valadon (; 23 September 1865 – 7 April 1938) was a French painter who was born Marie-Clémentine Valadon at Bessines-sur-Gartempe, Haute-Vienne, France. In 1894, Valadon became the first woman painter admitted to the . She was also the ...

Berthe Morisot Berthe Marie Pauline Morisot (; 14 January 1841 – 2 March 1895) was a French painter, printmaker and a member of the circle of painters in Paris who became known as the Impressionists. In 1864, Morisot exhibited for the first time in the ...

* Michel Elias as

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, the Male Master at the opera, the false old man, the impresario * Nicolas Planchais as

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, the Grand Male Master, Bancroche * Pascal Pestel as

Amedeo Modigliani Amedeo Clemente Modigliani (; ; 12 July 1884 – 24 January 1920) was an Italian painter and sculptor of the École de Paris who worked mainly in France. He is known for portraits and nudes in a modern art, modern style characterized by a surre ...

* Paul Bandey as

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, future

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* Isabelle Guiard as

Anna de Noailles Anna, Comtesse Mathieu de Noailles (Anna Elisabeth Bibesco-Bassaraba de Brancovan; ; 15 November 1876 – 30 April 1933) was a French writer of Romanian, Greek and Bulgarian descent, a poet and a socialist feminist. She was the only female poet ...

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, the mistress supervisor, the mother of the family * Karim M'Riba as

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* Olivier Claverie as

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, the police commissioner * Nicolas Lormeau as

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, Chocolat,

Antoine Bourdelle Antoine Bourdelle (; 30 October 1861 – 1 October 1929), born Émile Antoine Bordelles, was an influential and prolific French sculptor and teacher. He was a student of Auguste Rodin, a teacher of Giacometti and Henri Matisse, and an important ...

, the Male-Master Supervisor * Nicolas Gonzalès as

Maurice Ravel Joseph Maurice Ravel (7 March 1875 – 28 December 1937) was a French composer, pianist and conductor. He is often associated with Impressionism in music, Impressionism along with his elder contemporary Claude Debussy, although both composer ...

* Julien Azoulay as

Henri Matisse Henri Émile Benoît Matisse (; 31 December 1869 – 3 November 1954) was a French visual arts, visual artist, known for both his use of colour and his fluid and original draughtsmanship. He was a drawing, draughtsman, printmaking, printmaker, ...

* David Bertrand as

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* Swan Mirabeau as

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and

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* Serge Bagdassarian as the butter plate salesman, the Bike Master, Randolphe, the inspector at the

Production

Development

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, and

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Michel Ocelot has said that two starting points for the production were his desire to create a work set in Paris, and an originally separate desire to create one on the topic of male suppression and abuse of women and girls. He chose to combine these in a narrative which takes place in the ''Belle Époque'', roughly in the

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, a decade in which several historical firsts for women in France were made. The film depicts some of the many notable historical figures who were often present in the city at the time, and features a fictionalized version of the opera singer Emma Calvé as a supporting character. However, it simultaneously intentionally diverges from real history (and, as the director readily admits,

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) in its metaphorical main plot and inclusion of retrofuturist technology influenced by various works of

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and ''

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'' by

Gaston Leroux Gaston Louis Alfred Leroux (; 6 May 186815 April 1927) was a French journalist and author of detective fiction. In the English-speaking world, he is best known for writing the novel ''The Phantom of the Opera'' (, 1909), which has been made int ...

Animation production

The

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style continues in that used in '' Azur & Asmar'', in that the fabric, hair, and so on of the three-dimensional models is rendered as solid colours with no

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, though it differs in that the characters' bodies (which in ''Azur & Asmar'' were shaded from a fixed angle, in a style inspired by

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) are defined with a tracing effect developed from that used in ''

Kirikou and the Men and Women ''Kirikou and the Men and Women'' () is a 2012 French animated children's film written and directed by Michel Ocelot. The second sequel to Ocelot's 1998 film ''Kirikou and the Sorceress'', following '' Kirikou and the Wild Beasts'' (2005), the fi ...

''. The scenery incorporates photographs, taken by Ocelot over four years, of structures which survive from the depicted era or earlier, including the

Palais Garnier The (, Garnier Palace), also known as (, Garnier Opera), is a historic 1,979-seatBeauvert 1996, p. 102. opera house at the Place de l'Opéra in the 9th arrondissement of Paris, France. It was built for the Paris Opera from 1861 to 1875 at the ...

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Racine,

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and the

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and objects from the collections of the

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, Musée du quai Branly – Jacques Chirac, and

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, which are used directly as two-dimensional elements or for

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rather than as reference material. Others were recreated in three dimensions, including the

, which was based directly on architectural drawings from

's company. The digital library of the

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, Gallica, was used for research and for two-dimensional empherea that were incorporated directly. Unlike Ocelot's two previous feature films, '' Tales of the Night'' and ''Kirikou and the Men and Women'', ''Dilili'' has not been released in

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Release

In North America, the film was released in cinemas in

on 21 December 2018 by Axia Films and on

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throughout Canada by them on 7 March 2019, in both instances in French with no English options. It was released in cinemas in the United States and English-speaking Canada on 4 October 2019 by

, with an English-language dub. In Australia, the film was played in cinemas as part of the 30th

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, which ran from 5 March to 18 April 2019 in 9 cities across the country, and it was released on

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and video on demand in Australia and New Zealand on 10 July 2019 by

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, in both instances in French with English subtitles only. In China, the film was selected for competition at the

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Reception

Accolades

At the 4th International

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Film Festival, held in

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in September 2018, ''Dilili'' won the Press Award for Best Feature Film. On 4 February 2019 at the

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it won Best Animated Film, and on 22 February 2019 at the

it won the César Award for Best Animated Feature.

References

External links

* at Wild Bunch International Sales * at Michel Ocelot's official website * at

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