Petit Bulletin GRENOBLE - Cinema Grenoble: review of the film "Sahara": Who are these snakes hissing in the desert for? by Vincent Raymond

Belonging to peoples who never spawn together, Ajar the serpent of the sands and Eva the serpent of the oasis defy taboos by crossing the borders of their territories. But their expedition goes wrong and Eva is captured by a reptile trainer. Ajar goes looking for him

In the rather singular landscape of French animation, where on the one hand creations with stylistic biases and/or radical screenplays flourish (Avril, Ma vie de courgette, Tout en haut du monde), on the other mediocre copies of American studios (The Little Prince), Sahara appears as a curiosity. Because if he borrows from the latter their standardized aesthetics as well as the good old frame of an initiatory quest rich in characters with round shapes and bright colors, the subject is not necessarily sanitized. Behind the apparent convention stands a solid buddy movie with anything but lame animation at the same time, have we ever seen serpent limp?

Pierre Coré is not there to impress the eye by forgetting to tell his story, he thinks about an overall harmony and delivers a work of a pretty homogeneity, with what it takes to varied opponents and surprises to enamel it. Don't leave it on the sand.By Pierre Coré (Fr.-Can., 1h26) with the voices (vf) of Omar Sy, Louane Emera, Franck Gastambide