April In Paris Film Festival – April and The Extraordinary World

Director: Christian Desmares & Franck Ekinci

2015, France, 103, PG

Screenwriter: Franck Ekinci / Benjamin Legrand

Cast: Marion Cotillard | Marc-André Grondin | Philippe Katerine | Jean Rochefort.

Distributor: GKIDS

Following the film a discussion will be led by Jonathan Degenève. He teaches at Paris III-la Sorbonne Nouvelle.

 

From the producers of the Academy Award®-nominated Persepolis and the mind of renowned graphic novelist Jacques Tardi comes a riveting sci-fi adventure set in an alternate steampunk world. Paris, 1941. A family of scientists is on the brink of discovering a powerful longevity serum when all of a sudden a mysterious force abducts them, leaving their young daughter April behind. Ten years later, April (Academy Award® winner Marion Cotillard) lives alone with her cat, Darwin, and carries on her family’s research in secret. But she soon finds herself at the center of a shadowy and far-reaching conspiracy, and on the run from government agents, bicycle-powered dirigibles and cyborg rat spies.