My favourite film genre is animated movies but for adults. I love animated movies in general but I am more sensibilized by adults'films. In those animated films, there is always a kind of morals but more complicated than in animated cartoon for children. I think about one of my cult animated film : Paprika ( directed by Satoshi Kon) which is a reference in animation, all the film is a thinking about the border between reality and fiction. It's an idea that children cannot really understand and even if the graphism is really advanced and touching, they loose an half of the film's interest. This kind of movies offers also a research about characters which is more intersting (for me) than in infant films because the directors work about the human's complexity whith accuracy. I think it's important for adults and teenagers to recognize themselves throught the characters in the film. They can play with stereotypes because adults can understand them. For example, if adults are more intersted by Silvain Chaumet's films than children, it's (in part) because of the numerous strereotypes which people and give life in his films. We understand his message, his society critical, things which don't really exist in children films. Moreover, make this kind of movie it's more free because there is not "youth protection" or things like that. Directors can use violence, shock, delicate society subjects to exprim their ideas and I think it's very interesting to mix this freedom of expression and the poetry of drawings, art experimentations. It's a subtil way to talk about subjects which are sometimes harsh. There are a lot of example... Jin Roh ( by Iroyuki Okiura) is an animated movie very poetic, with long shots, with moments, in the film, without action. But it deals with teenagers suicide bombers in the 50's in Japan. So there is some shocking scenes alternated by poetic moments (always caught by war etc..) and I think that, thanks to this mix, the film is more touching. It made me think. Stoshi Kon proved that Animation can also talk about grave subjects with "Perfect blue". There is a rape scene, fictive because the protagonist is shooting for a TV show (in the story) but there is an ambiguity in the film which give us a doubt. And this scene is horrible, very realistic. Even if it's drawings, I had a stomac-ache (even more than in "Millénium, the film"). I feel more emotions with animation for serious subjects. Persepolis helped me to understand the Irak conflict and for me it's a good choice to have kept the Marjane Satrapi's drawings which are very explicit. I may prefer animation for this kind of story beacause I draw myself. But in my opinion, there is more graphic possibilities with this medium (that we have not in actual shooting) and I think that visual message is as important as textual message : the moral. I love also actual shooting Cinema (I know that artists as Xavier Dolan or Wong kar Wai success in graphic effects) but films wich have got my attention and which helped me to have opinions (in politic, social ect...) are animated movies (like Tokyo Godfather, about homeless people, Animatrix, Les triplettes de Belleville, Princesse Mononoke etc... ). And the last but not least it's for me that Animated movies are very importnt in the animation's evolution because we have to how that animation is not the little brother of actual shooting cinema, it doesn't exist only to crate fictive worlds (with dragons or other fantastic things) easier. We can also talk about real life, everyday life (all the subjects used in Cinema) in animated films. A landscape can be transcribed in photograph, in painting, in water colour and for me, it's the same in Cinema.

My favourite film genre is fantasy animated movie. Those kind of movies can be intended for children and enjoyed by teenagers and adults, or they can be intended for older auditory only, the fact is that I grew up with a lot of them and if I had to choose, I’d say that I would like to create those kind of movies in my professional future. It’s true that, in the animation industry, this genre is dominant: maybe that’s because it leads you to extend your imagination and permits you a great freedom in the creation of character and landscapes designs. Most of the time, the story is close to a (fairy) tale and the action takes place in a world that looks like ours, but there aren’t no cities we know mentioned, or in that case, it takes place during a period different that the one we live in, like the Middle Age. In Tangled (produced by Disney) for example, the art concepts were inspired by the Mont-Saint-Michel to create the design of a castle on the top of a giant rock. But the general atmosphere of the movie is more of a medieval one. Typically, the main character is a teenage boy or girl, who has a friend (sometimes an animal) who is going to follow him through his adventures. At the beginning of the movie, we are introduced to the hero, who is facing a certain issue: it can be something about him, like a lack of self-esteem, or the fact that he’s stuck in a lifestyle that doesn’t suit his ambitions and personality. He figures out how to change what’s bothering him at the end of the movie (the moviegoers has to be entertain through the whole film, even though they often know how it’s going to end) but the answer is frequently anticipated when the main character meets someone new or does something he thought he wasn’t capable of: it’s the trigger, and it makes him open his eyes and change. In Spirited Away (directed by Miyazaki Hayao), it’s the loss of her parents, who were turn into pigs, which makes the heroine grow up and gain faith in her. This movie is although pretty harsh for young viewers, like many of Miyazaki’s films, because it deals with dark spirits and with death. It’s the case for some Disney’s movies too, like The Black Cauldron, in which a dark skeleton Lord tries to create an army of living-dead people, but the medium (animated drawings) allows children to be more easily sensitized to the message, even though they’ll not get all the subtlety of it. There are many ways to interpret that kind of movie depending on whether you’re a child or a grown-up, but the moral stays intact. Moreover, this medium is very effective with this kind of fantastic stories: drawing allows you to create unlikely landscapes, evil faces, etc. It’s also easier to play with metamorphosis, which is a recurrent theme in this genre, because it involves magic tricks, or monsters. The choice of colors is very helpful and powerful to communicate a specific emotion at some point of the story. For example, during the climax, the color script is in shades of red and purple, in order to create an epic moment with bright and vivid colors. The reinterpretation of a graphic style can also be used to establish an atmosphere unique to the story: in The Secret of Kells (directed by Tomm Moore), the visuals pay homage to the Celtic art, either in the colors or the patterns, and I really enjoyed the overall ambience of the film because of those graphics. What I love about this genre of film is that it combines epic and dramatic situations with fresh and humorous ones. When it comes to fairy tale as the original script, the difficulty, for me, lies in the making of a pretty dark tale entertaining for today audience. Even in Princess Mononoke (directed by Miyazaki), which is pretty gore and gloomy, there are some respites, with lighter and quite funny moments, that allow you to really connect with the personality of the characters. In those movies, the villains are never entirely bad people, they’re more subtle that they let us know at first, and the spectators are often surprised when, at the end of the movie, the arch enemy of the main character becomes a friend of him. In Howl’s Moving Castle (directed by Miyazaki), the witch who casts the malediction upon the heroine at the beginning of the movie plays an important part in her evolution later on. This movie is furthermore my favorite animated movie: it stayed in me since I watched it, like a dream. It summarizes well what I expect of a good fantasy animated movie: a main character with strong personality who, at first, has no self-esteem but take advantage of the misfortune that happened to her to reveal her true self; a dose of romance and humor; some very stressful and tragic moments that make you cry, and also dream-like animation and unreal visuals that make you cry too, especially when you aspire to work in the animation business in the future.