“Dog-wise, happiness is exactly the opposite compared to human mentality: we want things to stay put, while people are constantly in search of something new. They call it dreaming, I call it not knowing how to be happy,” argues our titular heroine, and who dares to prove her wrong? Marona has been abandoned, rescued, sold, adopted, renamed and left astray countless times, and her adages are overflowing with condensed wisdom. A visually exquisite animated fairy tale, which imparts the rocky question of identity, the search for happiness, the confrontation of loss, wrapped up in an endearing, moving story.
Marona’s Fantastic Tale
L’Extraordinaire voyage de Marona
60th TIFF: Greek Premiere
Screening Schedule
No physical screenings scheduled. |
- Direction: Anca Damian
- Script: Anghel Damian
- Editing: Boubkar Benzabat
- Sound: Clément Badin, Régis Diebold
- Music: Pablo Pico
- Actors: Lizzie Brocheré, Bruno Salomone, Thierry Hancisse
- Production: Aparte Film
- Producers: Anca Damian, Ron Dyens, Tomas Leyers
- Co-production: Sacrebleu Productions
- Executive producer: Marc Goyens
- Sets: Brecht Evens
- Format: DCP
- Color: Color
- Production Country: France, Romania
- Production Year: 2019
- Duration: 92΄
- Contact: Charades, sales@charades.eu
Anca Damian
Filmography
1996 Eminescu, truda întru cuvânt
2008 Întâlniri încrucisate | Crossing Dates (fiction)
2013 O varã foarte instabilã | A Very Unsettled Summer (fiction)
2015 La Montagne magique |The Magic Mountain
2018 Moon Hotel Kabul (fiction)
2019 L’extraordinaire voyage de Marona | Marona’s Fantastic Tale (fiction)
2008 Întâlniri încrucisate | Crossing Dates (fiction)
2013 O varã foarte instabilã | A Very Unsettled Summer (fiction)
2015 La Montagne magique |The Magic Mountain
2018 Moon Hotel Kabul (fiction)
2019 L’extraordinaire voyage de Marona | Marona’s Fantastic Tale (fiction)