“What if rainbows were future humans traveling in time? ” is the kind of tag line that will send many gamers running for the hills, but Ugo Bienvenu’s colorful, breath-taking sci-fi animation threatens to turn sky-gazers and day-dreamers into anyone willing to take the trip. Arco is a guy from a distant future where people live among the clouds, in harmony with nature. They also solved the problem of time travel by wearing flowing, technicolor capes to circle the sky and pierce the fabric of time. and place. Such adventures, we find, will only be enjoyed by those who have passed 12but that doesn’t stop young Arco, who swipes his older sister’s suit and goes on a solo adventure into the unknown. His destination is a time very close to ours, in the very near future 2075where he falls into the life of a spirited, thoughtful girl named Iris.
So far, Bienvenu has distinguished himself in all the short films, music videos, band dessinées and brand collaboration, developing a unique personal style that combines bold, bold design and a mysterious approach to sci-fi motifs. His first feature is equal parts polished and mostly, funny and weird.
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As the young couple conspires to get Arco home, we can enjoy the details of the film’s vision. 50 years from now: a sprinkling of robotic feeders, bubble cars and candy-colored gadgets over the city’s familiar landscape. By 2075However, a climate disaster is imminent for Iris. Curfews and buffer zones keep wildfires and devastating storms at bay, but they are apparently futile, temporary fixes. The world is ending around him, yet this strange boy is out of time, who can talk to birds and is obsessed with supermarkets and electronics, comes with a lifeline.
Arco.‘bent environmentalist, from the delightful pillow images of bubbling rivers and leafy crocodiles to the dramatic scenes of natural disasters, at first recall the films of Hayao Miyazaki. Where Arco from Miyazaki, however, is the way it offers an alternative to the ongoing narrative framework of the Japanese grouch. Miyazaki’s films appeared Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind to Princess Mononokecreating a conflict between the halcyon, pre-industrial age and the world-destroying greed of humanity – with young people tasked with finding beauty in waste. In ArcoWell, Iris’s near-future may be flaming, but Arco’s far-future is an environmentally conscious idyll to dream into.
This is the first color, the important story telling. It’s disarming, lovable and unafraid to be honest – especially when it comes to the sparks of inspiration, creativity and communication that are so important in human life. Continue with it, and its last stretch is a little 90– minute-by-minute running time with enough emotional effects and thematic flashpoints to fuel a sci-fi story library. However, what is true is his unwavering belief in the ingenuity of future generations and the hope that today’s youth will build a better world tomorrow.
