Seventeenth-century Kilkenny is the setting for this beautifully made animation about history, heritage and family
Cartoon Saloon is the Kilkenny-based studio that has quietly engineered an upsurge in Irish-inflected animation: their 2009 debut feature The Secret of Kells (about the creation of the celebrated ninth-century illuminated manuscript) was nominated for an Oscar, as was Celtic folk tale Song of the Sea (2014). After co-producing the Afghanistan-set The Breadwinner (2017), Cartoon Saloon have returned to home territory for this characteristically beautiful alternative-history tale that seeks to repair, or at least assuage, some of the spiritual and physical damage inflicted on Ireland by the Cromwellian invasion of the 1640s and 50s.
It is a bold move to set a kid-oriented animation in this traumatic period: Kilkenny fell to Cromwell in 1650, part of the English parliamentarian rampage through the country as they successfully quelled Irish support for the overthrown Stuart monarchy. The forest outside the town...
Cartoon Saloon is the Kilkenny-based studio that has quietly engineered an upsurge in Irish-inflected animation: their 2009 debut feature The Secret of Kells (about the creation of the celebrated ninth-century illuminated manuscript) was nominated for an Oscar, as was Celtic folk tale Song of the Sea (2014). After co-producing the Afghanistan-set The Breadwinner (2017), Cartoon Saloon have returned to home territory for this characteristically beautiful alternative-history tale that seeks to repair, or at least assuage, some of the spiritual and physical damage inflicted on Ireland by the Cromwellian invasion of the 1640s and 50s.
It is a bold move to set a kid-oriented animation in this traumatic period: Kilkenny fell to Cromwell in 1650, part of the English parliamentarian rampage through the country as they successfully quelled Irish support for the overthrown Stuart monarchy. The forest outside the town...
- 10/30/2020
- by Andrew Pulver
- The Guardian - Film News
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