Parents who wistfully crave the great storytelling and artistry of classic cel animation might consider letting the gracefully nimble feline of 'A Cat in Paris' take kids on the adventure of a lifetime. The film is presented as part of the 2011 San Francisco International Film Festival.Created in stylish, hand-drawn 2-D animation by Alain Gagnol and Jean-Loup Felicioli and set among the rooftops of Paris, the film is a noir-ish thriller for the 8-and-up set.
Though younger children might find the story a complex one to follow - the festival will be showing an English-language version of the 65-minute film - the imaginative tale of the young Zoé and her heroic cat, Dino, has a modern-day fairy-tale feel, complete with chilling villains and a nail-biting, high-stakes chase over the roof of Notre Dame Cathedral.
