Azur et Asmar (2006)

Calificación de los usuarios:

7.5/10   

Director:

Michel Ocelot

Guionista:

Michel Ocelot (writer)

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

25 octubre 2006 (Belgium)

Género:

Animación | Aventura | Familia | Fantasía

Plot:

Once upon a time there were two children nursed by same woman. Azur, a blonde, blue-eyed son of a noblewoman and Asmar...

Plot Keywords:

Fairy | Blue Eyes | Boy | Race Differences | Surrealism

Premios:

1 win & 2 nominations

Comentarios de los usuarios:

multicultural tale

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Reparto

Cyril Mourali	...	Azur (voice)
Karim M'Riba	...	Asmar (voice)
Hiam Abbass	...	Jénane (voice)
Patrick Timsit	...	Crapoux (voice)
Rayan Mahjoub	...	Azur enfant (voice)
Abdelsselem Ben Amar	...	Asmar enfant (voice)
Fatma Ben Khell	...	La Princesse Chamsous Sabah (voice) (as Fatma Ben Khelil)
Thissa d'Avila Bensalah	...	La Fée des djinns (voice) (as Tissa Bensalah d'Avila)
Sofia Boutella	...	La Fée des elfes (voice)
Olivier Claverie	...	Le Sage Yadoa (voice)
Jacques Pater	...	Le Père (voice)
listado alfabético del resto del reparto:
Imogen Bailey	...	La Princesse Chamsous Sabah (voice: English version)
Sean Barrett	...	Le Sage Yadoa (voice: English version)
Tayeb Belmihoub	...	(voice)
Frederick Benedict	...	Asmar enfant (voice: English version)
Leopold Benedict	...	Azur enfant (voice: English version)
Franck-Olivier Bonnet	...	(voice) (as Franck Olivier Bonnet)
Carlos Chahine	...	(voice) (as Carlos Chahime)
Mohamed Damraoui	...	(voice)
Suzanne David	...	La Fée des elfes (voice: English version)
Michel Elias	...	(voice)
Bouchra En Nasser	...	(voice)
Steven Kynman	...	Azur (voice: English version)
Nigel Lambert	...	Crapoux (voice: English version)
Nicolas Lormeau	...	(voice)
Tassadit Mandi	...	(voice)
Sonia Mankaï	...	(voice)
Hamid Nasser	...	(voice) (as Hamid Nasser)
Suzanna Nour	...	Jénane (voice: English version)
Mohamed Ourdache	...	(voice)
Albert Pariente	...	(voice) (as Al Pariente)
Nigel Pilkington	...	Asmar (voice: English version)
Lahcen Razougir	...	(voice) (as Lahcen Razzougui)
Hichem Rostom	...	(voice)
Mahmoud Said	...	(voice) (as Mahmoud Saïd)
Emma Tate	...	La Fée des djinns (voice: English version)
Myriam Tekaïa	...	(voice)
Djemal Touidjine	...	(voice)
Keith Wickham	...	Le Père (voice: English version)
Hichem Yacoubi	...	(voice)
Omar Yami	...	(voice)

También conocida como:

Azur & Asmar (USA) (trailer title)
Azur & Asmar: The Princes' Quest (UK)
Azur and Asmar (International: English title) (informal literal title)
Azur y Asmar (Argentina) [es]

MPAA:

Rated PG for thematic material, some mild action and peril.

Duración:

99 min

País:

France | Belgium | Spain | Italy

Idioma:

Arabe | Francés

Color:

Color

Relación de Aspecto:

1.85 : 1

Sonido:

DTS | Dolby Digital

Clasificación:

Singapore:PG | Switzerland:7 (canton of Geneva) | Switzerland:7 (canton of Vaud) | Brazil:Livre | Argentina:Atp | Netherlands:AL | Ireland:G | USA:PG | Finland:K-3 | India:U

Compañía:

Nord-Ouest Productions

Trivialidades:

Director Trademark: [Michel Ocelot] [silhouettes] A woman singing under a canopy is seen only in profile, rendered as a solid black silhouette. Later, when Azur and Chamsous Sabah climb a tree to get an overview of the city, they and the branches of the tree are similarly silhouetted against the blue twilight sky.

Citas:

[first lines]
Jénane: Azur...

multicultural tale

This animation fairy-tale is parable on tolerance between races, creeds and classes. It is a useful antidote to mundane everyday life in which those distinctions are very much alive. The message of the movie is delivered in a rather crude way and not through indirect suggestion.It is visually beautiful but the copy I saw in Greece did not have subtitles for the lines that were delivered in Arab dialect- I do not know whether this was a deliberate policy or it just happened in the copy I saw. Nevertheless it is a fine movie with a message for male friendship and co-operation between different people even when they are different in colour, creed and class. I recommend it for younger audiences primarily but also for older people although I don't think that a movie will make them change their mind on such issues. The arabic setting is picturesque and the movie is difficult to situate chronologically since the white boy receives the training of a medieval to post-medieval gentleman while the ship he uses is more of the age of great discoveries. The clothes of the Arabs I can not locate in history since my knowledge of costumes in Arab lands is inadequate.But the point is not historical veracity but the message of tolerance which is a child of European Enlightment one would say although this is a very qualified statement regarding the situation of the natives in European colonies. But the Ottoman Empire a supposed multicultural state practiced discrimination towards Jews and Christians, the infidels or jimmies but not on the scale of Catholic Spain for example. I would say that the movie expresses a wish and not a concrete historical reality during which the most that different people could hope for was mutual indifference. But it is a noble a commendable dream, better than other dreams that attempted to materialize as historical realities-as the Nazi dream of the thousand year era of Aryan supremacy.A well-intentioned movie.