April and the Extraordinary World

It’s 1941, but France is trapped in the 19th Century, governed by steam and Napoleon V. Avril, a teenage girl, goes in search of her missing scientist parents.

Cast

Marion Cotillard

as Avril (voice)

Philippe Katerine

as Darwin (voice)

Jean Rochefort

as Pops (voice)

Olivier Gourmet

as Paul (voice)

Marc-André Grondin

as Julius (voice)

Bouli Lanners

as Pizoni (voice)

Anne Coesens

as Chimène (voice)

Macha Grenon

as Annette (voice)

Benoît Brière

as Rodrigue (voice)

Gérard Dessalles

as (voice)

Reviews

Reno

> The adventures of the family of scientists. As a film fanatic who grew up watching lots of 2D animations, I'm very happy to see they're still alive in other parts of the world after Hollywood abandoned them for 3D animations. Especially when it comes to this kind of animation, obviously the Fra...

CinemaSerf

In reality, it maybe slap bang in the middle of WWII, but this version of Paris is stuck in a time loop - an industrial city where progress has been stifled, the Empire still rules and over the last half century the brains that have provided for so much of their technology have been steadily disappe...

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