French Obsession #5 - A French Rodent's Impossible Dream
(You see here the packaging for the DVD for Råttatouille , the Swedish language version.This film has been dubbed into many languages. The Swedish language version is very good.) It is already August! For this month's French Obsession I would like to present a family film (for children seven years or older) called Ratatouille . Script writer and director, Brad Bird discribes Ratatouille as a story about 'The Impossible Dream'. Brad Bird, script writer and director of Pixar's Ratatouille A rat named Remy dreams about becoming a five-star gourmet chef in Paris! It is the meeting of the art of cooking at the highest level, and sewer-dwelling rodents; two worlds that cannot be farther apart! But anything is possible in the world of film-animation. This is Remy looking at a cookbook by Auguste Gusteau, his favourite chef. The animators at Pixar go to great lengths to capture the atmosphere of the older areas of Paris. In order to make this film believeable, the film team tr...