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The Bears' Famous Invasion of Sicily (film)

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{{Infobox film

| name = The Bears' Famous Invasion of Sicily

| image = The Bears' Famous Invasion of Sicily film poster.png

| caption = Italian theatrical release poster

| director = Lorenzo Mattotti

| producer = Valrie Schermann
Christophe Jankovic

| screenplay = Jean-Luc Fromental
Thomas Bidegain
Lorenzo Mattotti

| based_on = 'The Bears' Famous Invasion of Sicily' by Dino Buzzati

| starring =

| music = Ren Audry

| editing = Nassim Gordji Tehrani
Sophie Reine

| studio = Prima Linea Productions

| distributor = BIM Distribuzione
Path

| released =

| runtime = 82 minutes

| country = Italy
France

| language = Italian
French
English

| budget = 11 million

| gross = $2.2 million

}}

'The Bears' Famous Invasion of Sicily',

also known as 'The Bears and the Invasion of Sicily' in the United States (; ), 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.

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

Cast



Production



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

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.

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

Reception



Critical response

On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of based on reviews. Oneofus.net called the movie an "charming experience" and "refreshingly different" giving the adults a strong recommendation to take children see it.

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