Max & Co to premiere at Annecy
The debut feature by Swiss directors Samuel and Frédéric Guillaume, Max & Co [+see also:
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The international coproduction headed by Robert Boner (SAGA Production) and Benoît Dreyer (Cinémagination) is the most ambitious film in the history of Swiss cinema.
It carried a €18m budget; took 38 weeks to shoot; had 27 sets occupying an area of 4,500m2; and up to 130 collaborators for the set, animation, filming, editing and production – 80 in Manchester for the manufacture of 150 puppets at Mackinnon & Saunders (Chicken Run, Corpse Bride), 20 in Belgium for special effects and a dozen in France for music and sound.
An ecological and social tale in which the locals of a small town foil the goings-on of a flyswatter manufacturer, Max & Co brings together Swiss DoP Renato Berta, French composer Bruno Coulais, Belgian animator Guionne Leroy (Toy Story, Chicken Run), as well as French actors Lorant Deutsch, Amélie Lerma, Virginie Efira, Patrick Bouchitey, Denis Podalydès, Micheline Dax and Tonie Marshall, who lend their voices to the characters of this large-scale animated production.
(Translated from French)
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