The King and the Mockingbird

“A catalog of the movie's pleasures barely does justice to this lost-and-found delight.” - New York Times

Don’t miss Paul Grimault’s gloriously imaginative animated masterwork, based on the Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale The Shepherdess and the Chimney Sweep. A pompous, cross-eyed king is in love with a painting of a shepherdess. But she has eyes for the dashing young chimney sweep in the next painting over – and so the two decide to elope, stepping out of their frames and into Grimault’s endlessly inventive and bizarre castletown, where elevators are beetles attached to telescoping antennas, buildings hang like barnacles from gargantuan Roman pillars, and the King gives chase in a throne-turned bumper car. This French animated gem originally began production in the late 1940s, but wasn’t completed until 1980. It has been mired in rights issues ever since, which prevented its release in the US until now.

The Coral Gables Art Cinema & the New York International Children’s Film Festival give a special thanks to everyone who came out to the 3rd Annual 2015 Miami International Children's Film Festival! Check out the 2015 MICFF event calendar here.

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