Launched last week on more than 300 screens in France, the Quebec animated film Katak, the brave beluga garnered several rave reviews in the French press.
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“A great success,” wrote the daily The Parisian in his review published on the day of the release of the family animated film, last Wednesday.
The cultural magazine Telerama also had good words for Katak, the brave belugacalling the work of directors Christine Dallaire-Dupont and Nicola Lemay “a subtle coming-of-age story in the depths of the Great North.”
“Imagic soundtrack, elaborate framing and light humorous interludes: young spectators will see an animated film at their level”, we can read in the review of Telerama.
The cinema magazine First agrees with this by emphasizing that “in the infinite ocean of animated films for children, Katak becomes remarkable.
“All this is well and good (and comes to us from Canada), but what brings out Katak of the lot? Surely its very fair way of defusing the violence, by showing that it is also a question of heritage: the conflict between the belugas and the orcas which underlies the film is only the reproduction of the battles of the parents”, writes the review magazine giving the film a rating of three stars out of five.
Even if it expresses some reservations in terms of the “a little translucent” staging of the film, the magazine The Obs was also seduced by the Quebec production, arguing that “the charming story will delight children.”
Released in Quebec last February, Katak, the brave beluga was a great success in theaters across the province, grossing more than $1.7 million at the box office. The film produced by Nancy Florence Savard (Nelly and Simon: Yeti Mission, The Legend of Sarila) has already been sold in around a hundred countries to date.