'We were trying to stand at the crossroads between the efficiency of American storytelling and the visual poetry and boldness of Japanese animation,' adds director Olivier Clert
By Ben Croll
Premiering in Cannes ahead of its competition slot in Annecy, “Lucy Lost” is something of a passion project for Xilam founder Marc du Pontavice.
Years ago, the French producer acquired the rights to Michael Morpurgo’s children’s novel “Listen to the Moon,” which follows a young girl who washes ashore on the Isles of Scilly during the First World War. He spent considerable time developing it as a series but struggled to crack the adaptation, in large part due to its bifurcated structure, which unfolds across two parallel narrative threads.
The breakthrough came when he handed the book to Olivier Clert.
